The Gaze Lesson Notes

• 'The Gaze' is used in film theory to refer to the ways the viewers look at images of people in a visual medium.
• 'The male gaze' refers to the way in which men look at women in a visual medium.
• The fourth wall is a metaphor for the audience and when an actor talks down to the camera as if they are addressing the audience.
• Laura Mulvey came up with the theory of the male gaze.
• She thought that men were more often shown as active and women passive.
• Also, she put forward the idea that the woman is the 'image' and the man is the 'bearer of the look'.