Mulvey notes that Freud had referred to infantile scopophilia-the pleasure involved in looking at others bodies. In the darkness of the cinema it is noted that a person can look at another's body without being seen. This connects to a sense of power whilst looking at another person.
Pleasure in looking has been split between active controlling males and passive female. Traditional films do not allow women to be desiring sexual subjects in their own right.
Mulvey created the term "the male gaze" As men do the looking, women are to be looked at.
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