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noun
The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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History
Coined by John Berger in the 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing, and popularized by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in 1975.
Across languages
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