Laura Mulvey - The Male Gaze

• Laura Mulvey is a film theorist and a feminist. 
• Mulvey came up with the concept on male gaze in 1975.
• Mulvey wrote a very influential essay ‘Visual pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. 
• She stated that women are used for visual pleasure- women are made to seem like sexual objects through voyeurism. 
• She argued that women took the passive part of a film and that all men played an active part, in her eye the women were objects