The Male Gaze Specific Looks

Marjorie Ferguson

Chocolate Box

Chocolate Box: half or full-smile, lips together or slightly parted, teeth barely visible, full or three-quarter face to camera. Projected mood: blandly pleasing, warm bath warmth, where uniformity of features in their smooth perfection is devoid of uniqueness or of individual

Invitational

Invitational: emphasis on the eyes, mouth shut or with only a hint of a smile, head to one side or looking back to camera. Projected mood: suggestive of mischief or mystery, the hint of contact potential rather than sexual promise, the cover equivalent of advertising’s soft sell.

Super-Smiler

Super-smiler: full face, wide open toothy smile, head thrust forward or chin thrown back, hair often wind-blown. Projected mood: aggressive, ‘look-at-me’ demanding, the hard sell, ‘big come-on’ approach.

Romantic or sexual

Romantic or Sexual: a fourth and more general classification devised to include male and female ‘two-somes’; or the dreamy, heavy-lidded, unsmiling big-heads, or the overtly sensual or sexual. Projected moods: possible ‘available’ and definitely ‘available’.

Trevor Millum

Seductive

When a model is posing in the Seductive look they should have their eyes slightly closed, the expressions will be small, but will still show through, they will also aim to look confident.

Carefree

A Carefree look, can be linked to sports because it seems as if they are active and healthy.

Practical

A pratical will include a model who seems to be concentrating something, so thier eyes will be focussed and their mouth will be closed but not tightly.

Comic

This will be seem as if the actor/model is being studpid, comical, funny and it will normally be exagerated, to make the most as if to seem that what they are laughing at is very funny.

Catalogue

This will make the model have their eyes wide open, with a big smile as if they are not stupid but quite dumb.

Male gaze Video Clip

This is a clip from the film The Mask, and this is the scene we first meet Cameron Diaz's character Tina Carlyle. This scene is a intra-diegetic scene because Jim Carrey's character Stanley Ipkiss is gazeing at Tina Carlyle who is depicted in the same world of the text. Male gaze is in this scene because the camera fixates on the curves of Cameron Diaz and how the men in this scene look at her. Cameron Diaz in this scene is bent over doing up her shoes and as she stands up the camera follows her cleavage. This is where men would be looking at. This scene also contains one of the main things about the male gaze, this is that the women is relegated to an object and men only view her as an object. Overall the male gaze is focused on Cameron Diaz to please the male viewers.