Mulvey

Mulvey's three main ideas:


Voyeurism Objectification - Pleasure gained from looking at passive, objectified characters. This is because it creates a sense of sexual power.
'Voyeurism' - They don't know they are being watched


Narcissistic Identification - Male viewer sees a male character who they aspire to be like, but identity with enough to feel temporarily powerful. They get pleasure by looking at someone simular to them.


Fetishisation - When a strong (potentially threatening) women is sexualised in order to make the audience feel less insecure.


Mulvey only talked about male spectators looking at passive women/active men. We can still used her ideas to understand how female spectators get pleasure from films too.


Mulvey's three main ideas enabled me to udnerstand how a majority of the audience react to media texts when these ideas are applied.  Learning these ideas, I was more aware of audiences and therefore I could apply these ideas to my final outcome.