Laura
Mulvey’s quote on the Male Gaze:
“In a world ordered by sexual
imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and
passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female
figure which is styled accordingly”.
–Laura Mulvey, 1992
My
interpretation of Mulveys theory is that there is a sexual imbalance between
male and women stereotypically, male having higher roles and the women being
looked down on. Men get pleasure from simply looking at women, while the woman
being passive meaning allow/accepting them to gawp at their figure and assets.
Female figure which is styled accordingly meaning the women wear provocative
clothing.
Her
theory is commonly known as the ‘Male Gaze’, when one is viewing a music video
the women are shown to be objectified. Women are mainly used for male
enjoyment; this is mostly with in the genre of grime/rap/R&B/pop etc. When
lyrics are based on a woman, the music video shows focus mainly on her assets.
Sometimes edited to show just her figure/assets on screen, girls in music
videos are always in costume of something revealing or provocative for the male
viewers.
Example:
Robin
Thicke - Blurred Lines http://youtu.be/yyDUC1LUXSU
From
this music video it clearly shows women as an object, the singers/rappers
within the video stare at their figure. Also, the lyrics are based on girls.
The girls in the music video are walking around being very passive wearing next
to nothing! Women are perceived very much as just an object to male viewers.
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