Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Media

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Some scenes focus mostly on the curves of a woman body and hence placing the viewer in the eyes of the man. The male gaze is seen whereby the woman curves are highlighted with specificities like some conventions of slow motion, some thoughtful camera movements, and other cut ways. The male gaze theory has denied the women their human identity and has subjected them as the objects which can be admired through their physical appearance (Mulvey, 47). Women have been neglected, and everyone watches films from male perspectives, and many of the women have been misrepresented as seen in the media. Mulvey’s narrative, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema elaborates how sexual imbalance is displayed in the Hollywood films. The society has changed everybody to extend that they see the women as objects of men.

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In this perspective, men are the active actors in the film, and the females are the passive actors in the film, and they are used for visual pleasure. Men push things to happen and drive the narrative forward, so they are seen as active. Women are highly objectified. They are used as objectives, and they are deprived of their value. For example, in the movie, Die Another Day, the tie James Bond meets Jinx, Jinx is objectified. Killing us softly 4 is the representation of the way women have been modeled by the media. The media is forcing women to live by their standards. Kilbourne perceives that as much as many adverts are using women, there are high chances that the rest of the women will copy the same (Kilbourne, 640).

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Many women are forced too lived for the goals of becoming thin and light skin as many are represented in the advertisements. Women have become vulnerable to man’s authority such that they can do anything to please men. Advertisements have been presented using ladies figures, and the rest of the other women are struggling to gain perfection no matter the cost. The media is worsening the situation of objectifying women through the male gaze. Seeing a woman through what she has to do to please a man has reduced women to objects. Mulvey and Kilbourne have expressed how the media is used to propel male gaze, and so women should as well try to live their life without the influence of the media.

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