the male gaze

the male gaze was written by larura mulvey in the essay 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' and can be represented as the audience being put into place as a heterosexual man, it shows how an audience can be presented, such as: how men look at women, how women see themselves, and how women view other women. This theory shows that women are being objectified and losing their identity to be used only for their physical appearance. this is shown is still being done in everyday life, for example, in advertising when the female body is used to sell a product even though they have nothing to do with each other.