Laura Mulvey (1975), "Visual pleasure + narrative cinema". Laura Mulvey believes that 'The male gaze' means that the audience of a film have to view the characters through the perspective of a heterosexual male.
The male gaze for femenists is:
How men look at women, How women look at themselves and How women look at other women.
The Male Gaze:
The camera lingers on the curves of the female body and the events which occur to the woman in the film are presented mainly in the way the man would react to these events or want the woman to react.
In our film because our main character is a female i think we may have to look at the male gaze to keep the male audience interested because the film is aimed mainly to women and this could make our film not as successful, i feel that because our character is 17 we could incorporate the thought of the male gaze by having a girl who is pretty to look at but not having it to obvious because this may ruin our film and not stick to the story line.
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Girls, you MUST try and apply this theory to your own work. If you are going to hint at a stalker element like you briefly discussed with me today in class then you must surely need the male gaze in your work.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly your characters in your text will demonstrate stereotypical elements in their behaviour, dress etc.
I would therefor suggest you create profiles of your characters and apply the theory to them.