Mulvey's Male Gaze- Audience Theory

• The Male gaze was a term used by Laura Mulvey in her essay 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' during 1975
• This term was used by Laura Mulvey as she believed she saw the male point of view (POV) adopted by the camera to benefit male audiences
• Laura Mulvey views the practise of the camera lingering on women's bodies as evidence that women were being viewed as sexual objects
• Mulvey believed majority of the central active characters were male, and see along with male audience females as passive
• She also believed that female audience were also positioned with the 'male gaze', seeing the world through their eyes

However since Laura Mulvey's essay was written changes in representation of women have resulted in fundamental challenges to stereotypical gender roles

for example:

• Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino 2004)
• Tomb Raider
• Charlie's Angles