Gaze

The gaze is an important part of any literary work in that it defines the viewpoint from which the reader sees the rest of the story. The gaze, however, is also much more than a particular point of view. It is a conveyance of power, and a way in which a narrator is able to completely shape the way readers understand other characters in the story, imparting their own standards and beliefs onto an often unrealizing audience. The gaze has a very clear relation to power in the sense that it is what

The “Male Gaze”. In 1975, feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" defined a new phrase the “Male Gaze”. Mulvey explained the phrase as a filter that is placed onto various mediums such as film that depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men's ‘male dominance over women’. This gaze according to Mulvey, “sexualizes and objectifies the woman”. The male gaze also affects how women see themselves and how

Is the male gaze still a relevant concept? Using historical and contemporary visual examples, assess whether the male gaze still exists. The male gaze is a concept that refers to how visual culture is designed to please a male viewer by sexually objectifying women. It was first coined by Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film critic, in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). She argues that Hollywood films use women as “erotic objects” in order to provide pleasurable experience

women’s cinema is the idea of the male gaze. The film industry is a phallocentric institution that since its inception has always faced the problem of objectifying women. As well Canada has faced similar problems long before the existence of film in the form of the colonial gaze, with attempts from both Britain and France to take what Canada had to offer and make it its own. In the film Away From Her (2006) Sarah Polley recognizes this problem that the gaze has on both the identity of women and Canada

Whether aware or unaware of The Gaze, it is a powerful institution in which the act of looking becomes a source of relational power. The practice of fixed attention upon something that is appealing to a viewer or that is the object of the image being viewed. The Gaze is a term made known by Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst and theorist. A legend to film theorists, Lacan provided an understanding of the unconscious desire through the power of images. And how the act of passive voyeurism merely makes one

The gaze in the movie Laura Mulvey, the British scholar, she puts forward the film argument combines with psychoanalytic theory and the concept of "male gaze" in her article “Visual Pleasure and Narrative”. Mulvey mentions that, “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active / male and passive / female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are whisper

Assignment: How have women been portrayed through photography? 16/01/2009 How have women been portrayed through photography? The gaze deals with how the audience views the people presented in visual culture, in this case, adverts, magazines and Cinema. The ‘male gaze’ is the male ability to exercise control over women by representing them in visual means as passive, sexual objects of male desire. The power of men over women has always existed. They are seen as the more powerful and clever species

The term “the gaze” has a general meaning that means to look at something with intent and with fixed attention. Lacan, Fanon and Foucault all use “the gaze” in order to refer to various concepts. Lacan uses the gaze in order to refer to in instance during the mirror stage in which the subject views itself in the mirror image. The subject then enters an anxious state that comes from the awareness from knowing that it can be viewed. Lacan argues further that the individual then loses a level of self-sufficiency

and taunts, make me feel as if I have done a crime by being born as a girl. The constant gazes are not so unusual now. Gaze, as the Longman dictionary defines is “a long steady look”, but I would say it is much more than that long look. It is a constant look with admiration for something. It simply turns a subject to an object where male values the body of a female to fulfill their desires. The term ‘male gaze’ was first brought up by Laura Mulvey and has come from film theory and is basically used

theory, I will focus specifically upon the identity of the gaze and discuss how this has been applied, previously and currently, in action and science fiction films; expanding upon Laura Mulvey’s argument in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975), regarding voyeurism and the application of ‘the male gaze’. The ‘gaze’ is a term that describes how we engage with visual media. Mulvey posits that there are three types of cinematic gaze to be considered in mainstream film; that of the characters