The Male Gaze

The Male gaze can be described as a femist reference to the voyeuristic way in which men look at women. To gaze means, more than to just look at.
Forms of Gaze:

• Specator's Gaze
• Intra-digetic gaze
• Direct address to the viewer
• To look at the camera
• The gaze of a bystander
• The gaze of an audience with a text

Trevor Millan:
He distinguished between forms of attention to his study of women in magazines.

Paul Messorsis:
He notes that traditionally me do not look directly into the camera, although during the past two decades, there has been a noteable countentrend in male orienatated advertising. He says that the female modeld in ads are looked at from a male on looker. He says that the women is sexualised.

Laura Mulvey:
She says that the male gaze is visual pleasure. It is Active male/ passive female. She says that the women is the image and the man is the on looker. She says it is voyeurstic and fethistic.

There are some criticims to Laura Mulvey's Theory. These Are:

• A Failure to account for a female specator
• Looks only at the spectator as a hetreosexual male
• Since 1980's there has been an inscreaing display and sexualisation at the male body in mainstream cinema and telvision and in advertising.