Male Gaze Theory

“In 1975, Laura Mulvey created the Male Gaze theory, the theory is believed that in film the audience have to see the various characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male. She then later argued that women are relegated to the status of objects and that the female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily by identification with the male.”

My work re-creates the various themes that are looked at in this theory, my work features a lead heterosexual male who goes around showing his alpha male like dominance which re-establishes the many different parts of this theory. My project doesn’t contain woman at all, in fact woman aren’t even mentioned as I feel like it would just end up coming across incredibly cliché and lacklustre as everyone has seen it before where the strong male lead is trying to fight for the attention and love of a female and knowing my target audience who are mostly students they would piece together my work to like that of those films if I just had a glimpse of a female in it. It might be a really sexist thing to say but I don’t think my target audience would be as in touch with my work if it was a female as my lead role as the way they are portrayed in other forms of media that is similar to mine show them as really frail and more in touch of their emotions more than anything else, whereas my character reacts more to his instinct and reacts in the moment without thinking and without feeling which is something I would find to be really hard to display had a female been involved.