LAURA MULVEY

The male Gaze in Robin Thickes Blurred lines

The camera is used to represent a male audience and therefore encourages objectification of women.
this includes close ups of body parts, tracking shots,slow motion, zoom ins and tilting up.
The audience is encourages to identify with the male characters and how they treat women



Mulvey argued that the male gaze reinforced gender differences in society



Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema was an essay written by Laura Mulvey. An essay which coined the term “Male Gaze” which soon went on to become a very well know and discussed theory. In film, the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual 
























Nicki Minaj- Anaconda

In this music video the women and particular objects are used for sexual content. The directors have objectified women through camera shots of close ups on particular body parts. furthermore, many tracking shots have been used so the audiences eyes follow the sexual body parts of the females


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