Male Gaze Analysis

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Is the male gaze still a relevant concept? Using historical and contemporary visual examples, assess whether the male gaze still exists.

The male gaze is a concept that refers to how visual culture is designed to please a male viewer by sexually objectifying women. It was first coined by Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film critic, in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). She argues that Hollywood films use women as “erotic objects” [1] in order to provide pleasurable experience for heterosexual male audiences.
John Berger, English art critic also refers to the concept in “Ways of seeing” (1972). He observed that “(…) men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” [2] As even in situation

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