Representation

Voyeurism- erotic pleasure can be gained by looking at a sexual object (preferably whe the object is unaware of being watched)

This music video is about a boy who is obsessed with his friend's mum, in the music video the mum does not know this, but the audience are seeing her through the eyes of the boy.

Male Gaze- Laura Mulvey 1975 proposed that because filmmakers are predominantly male the presence of women is often for the purposes of display (rather than narrative). This is to facilitate a voyeuristic response in spectators, which presumes a male gaze (regardless of the gender of spectator) one that is or may feel like a powerful controlling gaze at the female on display who is effectively objectified and passive. In male performance videos the voyeuristic treatment of the female body is often apparent, with the use of dancers as adornments to the male star ego.


Exhibitionism - Female performers being at once sexually provocative and apparently in control of and inviting a sexualised gaze in what could be termed as the opposite of voyeurism.


Female Gaze



Homosexuality