'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

Notes on Laura Mulvey's (1975) 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', Screen, 16 (3), Autumn, pp.6-18

Talks about the male gaze in the media, particularly in relation to cinema and the accepted state of the film industry, in a study of cinematic 'spectatorship'.

She claims that the‘pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female’ and that in cinema we indulge in the 'voyeuristic objectification' of women.

She was criticised for not accounting for the female spectator.