Wednesday, 8 October 2014

research:mulvey's theory

Mulvey’s theory

Mulvey’s talks about the 'male Gaze' and how music videos and the film audience view characters from a perspective of a heterosexual male.

This means that whilst watching music you realise that the camera tends to focus on the female body for example the breast or the bum. Mulvey’s  main point was that women are used as prop or objects to gain male attention

Mulvey’s theory is mainly seen in R&B and hip-hop songs where mostly male rappers lyrical content focuses on the women’s body parts


The video by French Montana ‘pop that’ is a prime example of Mulvey’s theory, in the video there a loads of girls walking around with minimal clothing showing off they’re breast and bums

Although Mulvey’s theory is correct in most cases but there a some examples of the opposite for example in Nicki minaj’s anaconda video she purposely shows off her body parts.

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