Laura Mulvey is a feminist who came up with the theory of 'The Male Gaze'. The concept of the Gaze is how the audience view the people presented. Mulvey coined the term 'Male Gaze' in 1975. She believes that film audiences have to view the characters through the eyes of a hetro-sexual male.
Features of the 'Male Gaze'
The camera lingers on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context to a mans reaction to these events. Relegates women to the status of objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.
"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 fantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly"
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