The male gaze is the way in which the visual arts and literature depict the world and women from a masculine point of view, presenting women as objects of male pleasure. [1][2][3] The phrase male gaze was coined by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975.[4]
The male gaze consists of three perspectives:[5][6]
that of the person behind the camera,
that of the characters within the representation or film itself, and
that of the spectator.