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male gaze
male gaze n. In the visual arts and advertising, the depiction of the world from the perspective of a heterosexual male, with the assumption that the audience also consists of heterosexual males, especially as manifested by depicting women as objects to be gazed upon.
[Coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey (born 1941) in the essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," first published in 1975.] male gaze
male gazeThe rendering of art, literature, etc., from the perspective of and for the consumption of heterosexual males, especially characterized by the depiction of women as passive objects of desire and pleasure. The phrase was coined by film theorist Laura Mulvey. The male gaze will continue to dominate media until more and more women artists challenge the paradigm.See also: gaze, maleEncyclopediaSeegaze |