Laura Mulvey wrote a very influential essay, "visual pleasure and narrative cinema" (1975)
suggests the way women are viewed in cinema is "unequal". The camera necessarily presents , women as "sexualised", for the pleasure of men.
Mulvey's three types of looking:
A relevant quote for this theory:
"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" Johnathan Schroeder (1998)
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