Male Gaze In Films

A. The articles of Laura Mulvey and John Berger illustrate the idea of both male and female gazing. In Laura Mulvey’s theory, it shows how media especially in the film industry depicts the female body as a subject to male gazing. It identifies how men (and even women at times) sees female in their own perspective as something that exposes their masculinisation. As being the subject of male gaze, women are submissive; prone to sexualization, etc. In short, women in media are subjected to visual pleasure by both men and women. Even a woman gazes at other women as they are a part of the audience of the said media. For example of male gaze is found in films such as Baywatch, 007, and many more. In the film Baywatch, male gaze is seen when one of

The concept of Hyper reality by Baudrillard is defined as the belief of putting up all the things we see in media (may be through films, music, television, printed press, etc) as something that happens in real life. The idea is that we describe all the things that mass media produce as a concept in reality as well but it is not. We are blinded by the notion of simulacra or the portrayal of symbols and images given by the media as something that is “real”. Such example would be Kickass, The Matrix, Inception, Back to the Future and a lot more. In the Philippine context, such example would be the use of VR games that is trending in the Philippines nowadays. It shows how people see the video setting as something that happens in real life but it does not. It drags people to the virtual world and people may think that the concept of it may be also the concept of real world because of its content and context. It introduces new concepts beyond our imagination that we may think it can be also the ‘real’ but it just signifies the broad intellectual and creative minds of people behind the virtual reality. Its effects on the mass (male and female) are that they are being manipulated in determining what is real and what is not real. They bring people into the idea that what they see in media can also be seen in reality and at some point; they will find difficulties in determining which is which. These hyper reality concepts are somewhat unrealistic and

My role is that I am the mean and bad step sister of Maria -- who is bullied and oppressed by many because of her physical appearance. Alongside with my mother and sister, we dislike Maria a lot also because of the way she looks and treated her as a maid in the family. We showed cruelty even amongst a family member.

4. I realized that not all media shows are positive to the viewers. Sometimes, it brings negative to the emotion of the people seeing the media itself. It manipulates our mind to think that media has always positive effect on us. Also, I realized that we must appreciate our own and true beauty. It does matter what race we may be, what sexual orientation we poses, and what gender we’ve chosen. It also leads us to being ourselves no matter what. Change is not an option to attract people; it is only a sign that we are weak enough to handle the