Notes on lesson:

The Gaze: Used in film theory in the 1970's to refer to the ways viewers look at images of people in any visual medium.

'The Male Gaze': Can be described as a feminist reference to the voyeuristic way in which men look at women.

Forms of Gaze:

• The spectator's gaze
• The intra-diegetic gaze
• The direct address to the viewer
• The look of the camera (usually in the place of where a man stands)

The fourth wall: Used to involve the audience. Where the character looks at the audience (camera) and in some cases starts to interact with the audience.

Laura Mulvey- The Male Gaze:

• "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" (1975)
• Active male/passive female
• Women as image/man as bearer of the look
• Voyeuristic
• Fetishistic

Critism to Mulveys theory:
Only directed towards heterosexual males and not towards women.