What is Voyeurism?

Voyeurism is the sexual interest or looking over people engaged in intimate behaviors.It

further consists of many categories which Im going to elaborate with examples.

Work from home-Fifth harmony

Th clearly gives us the idea of Voyeurism where it shows the  intimate activity.Laura

Mulvey,a film theorist discusses about how females are potrayed in media as sexual

objects and they are objectifed to give pleasure to men by male gaze.

Wrecking ball-Miley Cyrus

This video of Miley Cyrus completely gives the idea

about  voyeurism.The full angle shot of this video

shows Miley Cyrus completely naked and it is

shot in a very seductive manner.

Laura Mulveys theory on Male gaze

The concept of  male gaze was first developed by Laura Mulvey in 1975

in her Visual pleasure theory.She states that gender power is a

controlling force in cinema and is constructed  for the pleasure

of male viewer.This term is mainly in reference to Voyeurism.The

​camera is brought on focus to the curves of Woman's body and she's

displayed as an erotic object. Laura Mulvey argues that in mainstream

​cinema,the male gaze typically takes precedence over the female gaze.

Mulvey describes its two central forms that are based inFreud's concept of scopophilia, as: "pleasure that is linked to sexual attraction''.

Mulvey's essay also states that the female gaze is the same as the male gaze. This means that women look at themselves through the eyes of men. The male gaze may be seen by a feminist.

 

 

Types of gaze and Visual pleasure theory:

• Male Gaze
• Spectator Gaze
• Female Gaze
• Intra Diegetic gaze                                                

Jet blue-Major Lazor

Cold water-Major lazor

MALE GAZE

Cant remember to forget you-Shakira

The male gaze is the way in which male views the women in sexual and masculine point of view,

presenting women as objects of male pleasure.Female model is often put on display directly to the

spectator or indirectly through the mirror.

Music video example for male gaze

In Cant remember to forget you,the music video shows a lot of nudity,the camera slows down and stops on a woman's curves in a shot imitating how man stares at a women.This denotes women as the objects of sexual desire within a society.Women's legs,breasts and body has been focused openly.Shakira's bottom is the main focus in this video which is a perfect example for male gaze.

 

 

 

Moreover,this video clearly shows Shakira

moving on bed and touching her upper legs

which shows the idea of sexual pleasure.

The lighting is mainly red and ​

by her moves,she's trying to

attract the men.