{"id":1288,"date":"2021-11-26T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:56:10","slug":"mimi-bainbridge-gaze-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/26\/mimi-bainbridge-gaze-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Bainbridge &#8220;Gaze&#8221; Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In media, women tend to depicted as objects. Their look is made available for the &#8220;gaze of spectators who are coded as white heterosexual men.&#8221; (75) Over the years, the formation of the &#8220;male gaze&#8221; throughout different films and shows has become a controversial topic of discussion. Why is it so prominent in the media industry? The answer can be found by collectively observing how male-dominated the crew, director, producer, and writer positions are in Hollywood. A majority of films are\u00a0 created by men, for men. Female characters may be told to speak a certain way or wear clothing to satisfy the gaze. For example, the movie <em>Suicide Squad\u00a0<\/em>was originally filmed with the help of a male director. In the first film, Harley Quinn, one of the main female characters, was put in a costume featuring very small and ripped clothing. However, <em>Birds of Prey:<\/em> <em>Harley Quinn\u00a0<\/em>was filmed by a female director. Although Harley maintained her vibrant personality, she was put into an outfit that wasn&#8217;t as sexualized. The comparison between the same character in these two films show how prominently the male gaze effects clothing choices for female characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In media, women tend to depicted as objects. Their look is made available for the &#8220;gaze of spectators who are coded as white heterosexual men.&#8221; (75) Over the years, the formation of the &#8220;male gaze&#8221; throughout different films and shows has become a controversial topic of discussion. Why is it so prominent in the media industry? The answer can be&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/26\/mimi-bainbridge-gaze-post\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177312,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaze","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}