Feminist theories

• Laura Mulvey- the 'male gaze'

  • Cinema narratives and portrayals of women in cinema are constructed in an objectifying and limiting manner
  • Done so in order to satisfy the psychological desires of heterosexual men, and more broadly, of patriarchal society
• Liesbet van Zoonen- 'spectacle' vs 'object'

  • Came up with the idea that in mainstream culture, the visual and narrative codes that are used to construct the male body as a 'spectacle' is different to those used to objectify the female body.