... pleasurable viewing (Hayward, 2002). According to film theorists, Richard Allen, the male gaze occurs 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 the narrative, and ... spectator gazing upon the female body (Hayward, 2002). The male gaze is also mobilised through a form of identification in the male spectator, through identification with the gaze of the male sta...

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... "they always need someone to think for them." He has an undeniable power over them and views them as things to be controlled: "Women look into your eyes as if asking to be touched by your look." When talking about the future of his ex-wife, he says she will be lost in the United States " ... objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad wome...

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