male gaze en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by John Berger in the 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing, and popularized by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in 1975.
Meanings
- The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.
Deriveds
Translations (8)
fr regard masculin (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · es mirada masculina (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · cmn 男性凝視 /男性凝视 (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · sv manliga blicken (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · fi miehinen katse (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · ar نَظْرَة ذُكُورِيَّة (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · pl male gaze (viewpoint of a heterosexual man) · cmn 男凝 (viewpoint of a heterosexual man)
wikipedia: Laura Mulvey · wikipedia: Ways of Seeing · wikipedia: John Berger