Thread 215244293

>In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts[1] and in literature[2] from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer.[3] The concept was first articulated by British feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze

>>215244293 (OP)
Many people forget that the male gaze isn’t just women depicted in a sexy way; it’s a fixation on the female body that is divorced from the perspective of a man within the film. The floating camera that takes on the view of a disembodied man.
Michael Bay rarely resorts to it as his films are full of leering me.
But this shot from Olympo is a prime example.

>>215244293 (OP)
Why would a woman ever join the military? Don't they know they're going to get irreversibled?

The substance was classic male gazey but was made by a woman. That's the problem with the fantasy of a male gaze in art since women are narcissists who prefer looking at the female form too. Look at pop music which is dominated by female performers and fans and looks like a strip show.

>>215245325
Nothing about the male gaze as defined by Mulvey precludes women from using it, or gay men for that matter. It’s also not intrinsically a bad thing. It’s only bad when it’s lazy.

>>215244293 (OP)
>recent

>>215245325
CALL ON MEEEE

PHWOAR

>>215245353
How can you tell when it's lazy? Who makes that judgment?

>>215245885
your mama

>>215245353
It's not bad at all
the end

>>215244293 (OP)
letting women have opinions was a mistake

>>215245885
>How can you tell when it's lazy? Who makes that judgment?
Generally if it's there for no other reason but to tantalize, with no impact or meaning relating to the themes, message or plot of the story.
But it's art, so it's going to be subjective, so in the end will be up to the viewer to judge.