Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory

- Classic hollywood films, women are represented to provide visual pleasure for men.
- Women were only showed on screen to provide visual and erotic pleasure for men.
- Protagonists within a hollywood film would be male, the audience were expected to be male.
-  Influences of Freud to Laura Mulvey's theory is the idea of castration anxiety which is what a person unconsciously thinks. E.g if a women was not objectified in the way she was in a classic hollywood film, then men would be less powerful.
- This unconscious idea is that a males power and dominance over a female is in his penis, and dominance is threatened by a woman if she does not arouse this.