Laura Mulvey: Male Gaze Flashcards
1
Q
What is the male gaze?
A
The idea that the media presents women to satisfy men.
2
Q
Who are the producers that perpetrate the male gaze?
Why?
A
Male producers
To benefit male audiences
3
Q
What are the two types of male gaze in film?
A
Fetishistic - turning women from real people into a fetish.
Sadistic - assessing a woman’s guilt, asserting control, then punishing or forgiving.
4
Q
According to Laura Mulvey, what are the three ‘looks’ of film?
What does she say about these?
A
The camera, audience & people on screen.
Narrative conventions deny the first two & subordinate them to the third so people on screen have power over the audience.
