Summary of Laura Mulvey Theory!!

Laura Mulvey a feminist theorist and known for her most famous essay, "Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema" (1975) explains the film theory towards a psychoanalytic framework and femenism, with particular references to Sigmund Freud and Jaques Lacan.

She argues how females are victims of the "male gaze" and objects of desires, she entitled the role of the women being "to-be-looked-at-ness" showing that the protagonists being male and the audience, again male are there to objectify the woman and not as a narrative character.

Mulvey divides the women of the male gaze:

Voyeuristics (seeing women as 'madonnas')

Fetishistic (seeing women as 'whores')