Building Foundations and Theories of the Gaze

Since the birth of moving pictures, cinema has been used to narrate reality in a way that fantasizes the world in which we exist. The certain way that the camera ‘looks’ at the world is one that exercises God-like power over its sight of the subject. In this chapter I engage with Laura Mulvey’s gaze theory along with bell hooks’ oppositional gaze to try and define these terms in a broader context.