I have started looking into different theories that I can apply to my French New Wave research, and having already researched The Male Gaze theory by Laura Mulvey in A2 Media Studies, thought that this would be a good theory to consider.
As Jonathan Schroeder notes, 'Film has been called an instrument of the male gaze, producing representations of women, the good life, and sexual fantasy from a male point of view' (Schroeder 1998, 208). The concept derives from a seminal article called ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ by Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist. It was published in 1975 and is one of the most widely cited and anthologized (though certainly not one of the most accessible) articles in the whole of contemporary film theory.
http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html
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