1. The Male Gaze
... action represents a striptease like performance for the audience hence easily identifying her as a sexually attractive protagonist for the film. Many close ups of her body parts were use in this scene. This is a very good example of scopophilia, also known as voyeurism. Scopophilia literally means the desire to see ... through a form of identification in the male spectator, through identification with the gaze of the male star, looks upon the spectacle of the female body (Allen, 2001). Usually the woman portrays herself on two levels: First being an erotic object for the characters with ...
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