1. THE GAZE IS OFTEN LINKED TO POWER AND GENDER IN VISUAL CULTU
ARGUMENT The gaze theory was written by Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, in an essay called "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". ... Laura Mulveys ideas are very out dated (1975). ... Mulveys idea is based on there being one type of male spectator, the male heterosexual. ... Judith Halberstam supports the idea of the voyeuristic male gaze on the female victim. ... In psychoanalytical society, "a woman is subject to personal and social depression through her lack of a penis" . ...
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