Features of the male gaze are voyeuristic which means pleasure in watching. The camera lingers on the curves of the female bodt, relegates women to the status of the objects, male active and female passive when the female viewer experiences the narrative secondarily by the identification with the male.
There can be many different types of gaze in a media text such as films and soaps. The people that control the gaze are the director, camera, lead actor who are historically male. Male Gaze from a feminists perspective can be reduced to how men look at women, how women look at themselves and how women look at other women these are who is looking at who.
In some of the music videos I have looked at, especially R&B music videos the male gaze has been expressed by women acting in a sexual nature and how men look at them and dance with them in what comes across as a disrespectful way. Women in the videos are not dressed in very much and what they are dressed in shows off their curves, boobs and bum making men look at them in a certain way and it also effects how women look at them because some women may feel like they have no self respect whilst others might think what they are doing is good and want to dress or act like they are.
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