Laura Mulvey's Ideas on Representation

Laura Mulvey’s theory on representation is mainly about the Male Gaze; looking at women for visual pleasure, passive females, women as images and men as bearer of the look, how men look at women as sexual objects (voyeuristic).

 
The camera lingers on the curves of the female body and events which occur to women are presented largely in the contents of a man’s reaction to these events.
The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.  An example of this is Keri Hilson song called “The way you love me”. In this music video Keri Hilson is portraying herself as an sexual object to men. This is shown by the various closes ups of her body parts, and by the exotic dancing done by her and the dancers. 

 

Another example of an Voyeuristic image of women in the song Thong song by Sisqo. In this song there are very obvious shots of the female body parts being looked on by men. Just as Mulvery suggests; women are being made sexualised and objectified because men want to just use their bodies.