Summary of Laura Mulvey...

A important move in the use of Psychoanalytical theory in media film studies when Laura Mulvey used ideas of Jacques Lacan to argue that in the classical Hollywood narrative the spectator is constructed as male in 1975. In the history of films males have always been the 'hero' or main character, and female characters have always been mainly to be looked at or or to be saved. Mulvey argues a invention of complex males fear revolving around castration anxiety, male charcters were typically active, investigative narrative agents inviting identification while female fugures in film Brigitte Bardot were fertishized as objects of male gaze.