LAURA MULVEY





THIS IS LAURA MULVEY!!!








The reason im going to use laura mulvet as one of my theorists is because her theory on 'MALE GAZE' is relevent to my independent study topic as im focusing on females being represented as sex objects to entertain and pleasure men.

In Mulvey's best known essay, 'Visual and othe pleasures' she argues that woman in films are on the screens as a object of desire. She says that in classical Hoolywood cinema, viewers are encouraged to identify with the protagonist of the film, who tends to be a man. Meanwhile, female characters are, according to Mulvey are there to-be-looked-at-ness.

From the showgirl to the topless bar made, the body of the woman is used to make a profit from the male’s sexual desire. The body itself becomes an object of desire for a man, and the amount it signifies, is merely sex.