Laura Mulvey music theory. this is a slide share to explain Laura mulvey's Media theories.

1. MEDIA
THEORIES
By: Fortune Ovienrioba
Fortune’s A2 Media
Laura Mulvey

2. Laura Mulvey
 Laura Mulvey is a British Feminist Film Theorist most commonly
known for her essay
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” The male gaze.
The male Gaze was focused on the views of different audiences
on people.
 Laura believed that in modern day Hollywood films and music
videos alike, Women are presented in a manner that offers visual
pleasures to men or are visually appealing to men. She also
believed that the videos were made for a male audience and were
mostly targeted at them.
 She says that in the movies created, the main
character/Protagonist were all men and also the audiences were
also expected to be male.

3. Laura Mulvey
 Mulvey also said that women were
represented as object to satisfy a
man, they were shown to be
seductive and below the man.
 Mulvey saw that the camera angles and
shots of the female mostly had to do with
her curves and how beautiful or arousing
she appeared.

4. Laura Mulvey
 This theory will also show that
females were always shown as
less/inferior to men.
 Also it made female viewer to look at
films from the perspective of a man.

5. How will this theory help me in creating my own
music video?
 This is important to the creation of my music
video because it will help me to know what
the mainstream convention of a typical music
video should look like and it will also enable
me to know how to apply some of these
theories to my music video or subvert them.