My Eyes are up Here!: Defining the Female Gaze through a Comparative Analysis of Films throughout the Decades

• Main Author: Delos Reyes, Anka A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: male gaze theory; female gaze; visual content analysis; digital zine; feminist film analysis; Arts and Humanities; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Game Design
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/conf_shsrescon/2022/arts_da/12; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1116&context=conf_shsrescon
• Institution: De La Salle University

The male gaze is a trend that has been observed in film for decades, and the oversaturation of inaccurate portrayals of women can be harmful as these portrayals affect women’s self-perception and regress the efforts of feminst movements. Given this, the study aims to define, characterize and illustr...