Laura Mulvey - Male Gaze
The Male Gaze is when the audience is being shown the prospective of a heterosexual man, a scene would focus on a woman and would be shown in the point of the view of a man. 'She is the object of male desire' (Psychoanalysis cultural theory and popular culture, John S) This will be shown through technical conventions, fore example using slow motion. Slow motions are used to give the viewer more time to look, which links in with what Mulvey says about visual pleasure. The theory was created by Laura Mulvey and was released in 1975. The essay went on to be a well known and a discussed theory in the media world. It went on to talk about how in a film the female characters can have no importance is being there and they just there to be looked at. Also she is there to show how the male feels and this can show why the woman is there.
Mulvey looks at Lacan's 'mirror stage' and looks at a child's ego and pleasures within cinematic identification.
Visual Pleasure
scopophillia - pleasure in looking.
In Bad Teacher Cameron Daiz is being objectified and sexualise, this is shown through the camera and it also shown through the point of view of a man.
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