"... the eye of the camera, the eye of the actor-protagonist and the eye of the audience - are all male, and it is with the erotic pleasure of that eye that any viewer ... regardless of any gender, must identify ...
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the image of woman is as (passive) raw material for the (active) gaze of men, and the voyeuristic conventions of cinema determine the conditions of its pleasure."
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Feminist critic Hilde Hein on the 'male gaze'