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The females gazed at are objectified, treated as an object whose point is to be enjoyed and watched by the viewer.

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The characters that look at others are seen as the active role (male).

The characters that are looked at are passive (female). They are under the male gaze and only exist for male pleasure.

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Mulvey states that the role of a female character in a narrative has two functions.

1. As an erotic object for the characters within the narrative to view.

2. As an erotic object for the spectators within the cinema to view.

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The male gaze theory leads to Hegemonic ideologies within our society. This is when a dominant culture maintains its dominant position.

Laura Mulvey argues, for women the result of media being presented from the perspective of men and through the male gaze, women find themselves gazing at other women in the same way a man would, and therefore end up objectifying other women,

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The theory suggest that the male gaze denies woman human identity - referring to them as objects to be looked at for only physical appearance.

The theory suggests women can only watch a film from a secondary perspective and only view themselves from a man's point of view.

The existence of women in mainstream film is crucial. However, often a female character is onscreen purely for male benefit and for how they will make the male feel.

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In film, the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the viewpoint of a heterosexual man. A scene may focus on the curves of a woman's body, putting the viewer in the eyes of a male.

However, it is only the male gaze theory if these curves are displayed with specific conventions such as slow motion, deliberate camera movements and cut ways.

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The male gaze consists of three different gazes.

- that of the person behind the camera

- that of the characters within the film itself

- the gaze of the spectator

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Laura Mulvey is a feminist film critic and she developed the concept "male gaze". The male gaze refers to the way visual arts are structured around a masculine viewer.  It describes the tendency in visual culture to depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of a man's attitude