Laura Mulvey a current professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Believed that films placed women as subordinate and that audience's are asked to take a male 'point of spectatorship' in most cinema. She called this the 'Male Gaze', this theory emphasized that audience's are meant to identify (Identification), with the male lead, his actions become a surrogate for our own part in the narrative, and that we psychologically align ourselves with this point of view, so he becomes the ideal ego. But objectifying the lead's romantic interest (Objectification), making women appear feeble and weak, while men were quite smart and strong.
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