Theory Lesson - Laura Mulvey, Male Gaze

Laura Mulvey was a feminist film scholar who analysed Hollywood cinema and argued female characters were represented as passive objects of male desires. She believed there were 2 roles of a female character:

1. Erotic object for characters
2. Erotic object for the spectators

Richard Dyer draws on Mulveys work to argue that ways of looking reasurts male dominance.
Dyers Typography - 4 questions to ask of a representation:

1. What is represented?
2. How is this representitive of social groups?
3. Who is responsible for the representation?
4. What does the audience make of it? Responses not always the same