The Male Gaze: Laura mulvey

Laura Mulvey created the term ‘Male Gaze’ in 1975. She believes that in film audiences have to ‘view’ characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male, which is agreeable when indepth analysis is done on music videos and other media such as T.V adverts.

—Features of the “Male Gaze”: 

—The camera lingers on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context of a man's reaction to these events. 
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—Relegates women to the status of objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.

This theory applies to the genre in which we are trying to follow, the genre has known for being controversial regarding the "Male Gaze".

Examples of music video that conform to the male gaze

Omarion ft MMG- Lets talk

50 cent - candy shop

Christina Agulera - Dirty