Gender representation notes

The male gaze: Objectification- women exist in a media purely for the interest of the men.
How men look at women
how women look at themselves
how women look at other women

Archetype-
Stereotype-
Laura Mulvey: she is a theorist and a feminist and came up with the concept on male gaze in 1975.
here Mulvey wrote a very influential essay, 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' starting that women art used of visual pleasure- women are made to seem like sexual objects through voyeurism
She believes that in film audiences have to 'view' characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male.
Women are presented as sexual spectacle show objects of pleasure for the characters and audience. she believed that perspective of a heterosexual male.
Stating that the way women are viewed in cinema is 'unequal'.
The camera necessarily present women as 'sexualised for the pleasure of men.
Men fetishies women which she referred to as 'fetishistic scopophila'
Men have this gaze to avoid being 'castrated'.

The camera lingers on the curves of the female body.

Facial expressions...
Women: Super-smiler, Romantic or sexual
Men: Carefree, practical.

"To gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies a psychological relationship to power, in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze"

Charlie's Angels

Examples of female empowerment and sexuality.
Surfing
Low tops
Short skirts



5 examples of empowerment
- Firing guns at motorbike
- Punching the window
- Women betting men.
- fly kicking men
- Throwing him on the floor.
-Saving men
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5 examples of sexuality
- The surfing- bikini- exploiting their bodies
- Short skirts
- Strip show
- In underwear with long fur coat
- Male boss


1984: Miriam Hanson, put forth the idea that women are also able to view male characters as erotic objects of desire.
Since 1980's there has been a large increase in sexualisation and display of male body.


HOMEWORK- Draw reference from charlie angles and one other media text within