
“Numero uno, I think the Female Gaze is a way of “feeling seeing”. ( ) WATCH: Jill Soloway on The Female Gaze | MASTER CLASS | TIFF 2016, TIFF Uncut, youtube, 57:48 minutes They are also known for their work on Six Feet Under and for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series Transparent, for which they won two Emmys.

Soloway, who identifies as non-binary and prefers singular they pronouns, won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for directing and writing the film Afternoon Delight. Jill Soloway (born September 26, 1965) is an American comedian, playwright, writer and director. (Loreck, J 2016, ‘ Explainer: what does the ‘male gaze’ mean, and what about a female gaze?’, The Conversation, ) Mulvey argued that most popular movies are filmed in ways that satisfy masculine scopophilia.Īlthough sometimes described as the “male gaze”, Mulvey’s concept is more accurately described as a heterosexual, masculine gaze.” Adopting the language of psychoanalysis, Mulvey argued that traditional Hollywood films respond to a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking.

We will approach these concepts though the work of Laura Mulvey (Male Gaze 1975) and Jill Solway (Female Gaze 2015).Ī key idea of feminist film theory, the concept of the male gaze was introduced by scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey in her now famous 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. This material will assist you to grasp on the concept of the so-called Male and Female Gaze (aka Queer Gaze).
