She argued that most movies are filmed in ways that satisfy the male part of society. It is described as "The male gaze" this is the concept of woman as subjects in media and men as subjects (men looking at women) In her 1973 essay visual pleasure and narrative cinema she argued that classic Hollywood cinema puts the spectator in a masculine position, with the figure of the woman on screen as the object of desire. in both these examples, the male is active(the one doing the looking) and the female is passive (the one being looked at)
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