In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine, heterosexual perspective...

looming act of the gaze inextricably to power. The term "female gaze" was created as a response to the proposed concept of the male gaze coined by Laura...

with a female gaze. It is a response to feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey's term "the male gaze", which represents not only the gaze of a heterosexual...

theory that discusses the male gaze, Michel Foucault, and white feminism in film theory. In the 1992 essay "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators"...

has been touched on by several writers under the broader context of the male gaze. From the Western perspective, panchira is characterized by the sexual...

male audiences largely remember scenes that involve empty fields and unknown strangers or what they have ascribed as "rural terror." The "male gaze,"...

to concentrate on the male gaze. In 17th-century portrayals, combining Susanna's rejection of the men's advances while gazing toward heaven became common...

informed by the male gaze, and men's desires of the nudity of women. Feminist criticism has targeted female nudes, informed by the male gaze, for nearly a...

camera positioning and the male viewer constituted the "bearer of the look". Mulvey suggests two distinct modes of the male gaze of this era: "voyeuristic"...

the "male gaze" in defining the feminine image. Though absent from the pictorial frame, the male lover forms a pivotal point of reference, his gaze transfixes...