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male gaze
[ meyl geyz ]
noun
- Often the male gaze. the assumption in visual and creative arts that the default or desired audience consists of heterosexual males, and inclusion of women in narrative or art should seek to please this audience with the objectification or sexualization of these depicted women.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of male gaze1
Coined by Laura Mulvey (born 1941), British feminist film theorist in her essay 鈥淰isual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema鈥 (1975)
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The only way to get somewhere in life was to please the male gaze as an object of desire, to give birth, and have sex.
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With an unabashed sexual predator in the White House, amid the social upheaval of #MeToo, full-coverage clothing became a kind of armor, worn in comfort, indifferent to the male gaze and traditional notions of sex appeal.
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鈥淚t鈥檚 very uncommon for a film to not have a male gaze.鈥
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Instead, given the sculptural tradition of heroic men posed against a pedestal, and as a flip of the male gaze, she wanted 鈥淪trut鈥 to re-examine men鈥檚 bodies and their positions of power.
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It had no male gaze involved in it.
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