We can apply the Male Gaze theory to pretty much anything, not just music magazines, like this clip from Hollyoaks. In this clip there are a selection of scenes from a single episode where the character of Mitzeee Minniver introduced for the first time. Lets watch...
It starts with a scene of Mitzeee walking down the road with her legs fully on show. There is a lot of implied sexuality and she has to even pull her skirt down when it starts to ride up. She is enhanced even more because of the people sitting around her as they follow her with there eyes, the camera then pans around to follow her backside playing of her sexuality even more and objectifies her.
Next she poses next to a window as the camera quick cuts to her face where she removes her sunglasses, pucks her lips and bats her eyelashes. Throughout this scene we also get a song called 'She Wants To Move' which as the title suggests is about a woman who likes to move which can make peoples mind wander and also starts to continues to make her seem like more of an object.
We then get a couple of quick fire scenes where she talks to someone on the phone, makes a joke about female sex toys and kisses someone randomly.
In the second to final scene it starts with a seductive shot of her lips and then a scene where she sprays someone down with a water gun. throughout this scene she is clad in just a bikini and followed around by a cohort of young men to emphasize her sexuality. Then the clip ends with acting like a prostitute and gesturing someone who she is obviously winding up down an alley. Even after she starts to get threatened she starts showing off her body to him making her seem like I've said before as just an object.
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