In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... This does not conclude that these narratives are free from these misogynistic biases, rather that they are just aware of them and reference them to certain degrees. ... At the end of her essay Mulvey establishes three 'looks' in which this scopophilic dial...

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