Laura Mulvey-Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema (1975)

Laura Mulvey theory on the 'male gaze' debates and investigates both 'Freudian' and 'Lacanian' theories of psychoanalysis she expresses that: 

• Women are represented as sexual spectacle and objects of pleasure for the characters and audience.
• Men have the gaze to avoid being 'castrated'.
• Men fetish women in buying then overvalued and unrealistic status's 'fetishistic scopophillia'.
• The gaze is constructed through the camera man and production team establishing and framing a shot; by the 'look' within the film of male characters objectifying female ones, the spectators gaze is thereby constructed through these mechanisms.

This theory is therefore supported by;

Suzanne Moore (1988)-'male bodies are only on display in certain conditions-always in active poses.'

Van Zoonen (1994)-'men look at women, women watched themselves being looked at.'