2. Female characters are seen as visual pleasure
of the male characters or spectators within
music videos.
Audience put into masculine or voyeuristic
positions by Hollywood films.
Men are often the ones that look whereas
women are the ones who are looked at.
3. Women are the main object of ‘the gaze’, as
they are the ones who are looked at. Male
characters or spectators are the subject of
the gaze, as they are the bearers of the look.
Women connote ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ as
they are the focus of the male gaze. Mulvey
identifies process, women are the object of
‘the gaze’ and are often represented sexually.
4. Voyeurism: practice of obtaining sexual
gratification by looking at the sexual objects
or acts; secretively.
Fetishism: compulsive use of some
object, part of body, stimulus in course of
attaining sexual gratification.
Scopophilia: “love of watching”.
