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The [[Male Gaze]] is a term from [[Gaze]] theory that describes the tendency of works to assume a male viewpoint even if it does not have a specific narrative [[Point of View]], and in particular the tendency of works to present female characters as subjects of implicitly male visual appreciation.
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The term also applies in other mediums, such as video games and comic books. During the [[Dark Age]], comic books were often perfect examples of the male gaze, with scenes being framed to show off a female character's "assets" over everything else. The trend continues at a lower level today.
If the female in question is [[Medium Awareness|aware of the
The concept was popularized in Laura Mulvey's 1973 essay "[https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+Narrative+Cinema Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema]," quite likely the most cited essay in all of Film Studies.
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