The male gaze & Facial expressions

'The male gaze' - Laura Malrey

It comes in 3 different forms
 - How men look at women
 - How women look at themselves
 - How women look at other women

Male gaze - 1975
 The audience view characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male.

Features of the male gaze
 - Camera lingers on the curves of the female
 - Women are always having to be saved by a male
 - Relegates woman and objects, the woman must experience the narrative secondly by identification with the male.

Some women like being looked at either for men as sexual objects or as comparison in body image/clothing - e.g. beauty pageants.

'Catagorising facial expressions'
Woman:
- Chocolate box
-Invitational
-Super smiler
-Romantic/sexual
Marjorie Ferguson

Men:
-Carefree
-Seductive
-Comic
-Catalogue
Trever Millumi

Women - Marjorie Ferguson - 1980s

Chocolate box
-Half/full smile
-Lips together/slightly parted
-Teeth barley visible
-Full/three-quarters of face to the camera

Invitational
-Emphasis on the eyes
-Mouth shut with hint of smile
-Head to one side or looking back to the camera

Super - Smiler
-Full face
-Wide open, toothy smile
-Head thrusts forward or chin thrown back
-Hair often wind blown

Romantic/sexual
-Includes male/female 'two-somes'
-Dreamy
-Heavy lidded
-Overtly sensual/sexual


Men - Trever Millum 1990s

Seductive
-Similar to cool/level
-Eyes less wide
-Expression is less reserved but still self-confident
-Milder

Carefree
-Nymph like
-Active
-Healthy
-Vibrant
-Outdoor girl
-Often smiling/grinning

Practical
-Concentrating
-Engagedd in business in hand
-Mouth closed
-Eyes object directed
-Sometimes a slight frown
-Hair often tied back or short style

Comic
-Deliberately Ridiculas
-Exaggerated
-Acting the fool
-Pulling faces

Catalogue
-Neutral look - As of a dummy
-Features maybe in any position - Most likely eyes open and a smile
-Looks remain vacant