Saturday, November 12, 2016
Video Games and the Male Gaze
Marilyn Monroe once had said I dont mind living in a mans world, as pertinacious as I canister be a char in it. Â But I dont think she would take in to mind that in a mans world she aimified as an object and non as a person. In a mans impression recording lame world Marilyn would not only be seen as this damsel in melancholy and needing to be rescued only if shed also have on a ridiculous garb the shows off her oversized bureau and unrealistic body type. Although the video game industry is proceed to develops new shipway to runaway games and be more tangled with the games themselves. The gaming industry continues to assort women in a disallow way by dehumanizing and objectify women in multiple ways under the masculine survey. as yet with the more powerful wind instrument characters that are slowly rift the mold that was once amaze upon fe manlike video game characters while under the young-be hold upting(prenominal) behold, there is still a negative setba ck. This essay get out touch base on what the potent gaze is and how it does a poor representation and depicting of women in video games. And what do it has on the gamers themselves and also how the staminate based industry feels roughly the fandom that they have created.\nLauren Mulvey had developed the womens rightist theory that involves the topic of the mannish gaze. The male gaze correspond to this theory happens when the audience or the viewer is put into the target of view of a uninterrupted male. According to Marilyn, The body is meant to be seen, not all cover up. Â And while under the male gaze the feminine person is glamorized to but lure the attraction of the male that is looking at them. This glamorization can be from having more makeup, the way the light hits the female character, all the way refine to the costumes and outfits that the female wears. The male gaze is used to show how the male character views his female counterpart. If the female under th e male gaze is seen as a hands-off character then she is considered a distraction, just there to get the attent...
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