The Male Gaze is a theory of Laura Mulvey which focuses on visual pleasure and narrative cinema. her studies are based on how women are viewed as sexual object in society and media.
The male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual man. A scene may focus on the curves of a woman's body, putting you the viewer in the eyes of a male.
This theory suggests that this denies women of a human identity, relegating them to the status of an object to be admired for its physical appearance. This 'masculinizes' the audience.
Women are made to feel negative about themselves when viewing other women, they pick faults with their own appearances and gives them low self esteem. Women look at themselves as a comparison and feel inferior to the woman in the media product.
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