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Sep 1, 2023 · Lyrics pushing the boundaries of sexual consent, elevating physical attractiveness over fundamental intellectual engagement, and making blanket statements to denigrate women are ripe with the objectification and hypersexualization characteristic of the male gaze.
- The Importance of Gender Display and Nonverbal Behavior
- Gender Display in The Media
- Overview of The Study
- Research Question and Hypotheses
Media of all kinds proliferate depictions of gender, and one way to analyze such mediated representations is to employ the theoretical construct of gender display. Gender displays, part of the larger realm of nonverbal behavior, are the “tertiary sexual characteristics (that are) learned and socially created” (Mayo and Henley 1981, p. 3). Goffman (...
Numerous studies have focused on stereotypical portrayals of men and women in the media, and television in particular has been blamed for creating false expectations of beauty and body shape (Children Now 1996–2003; Want et al. 2009), objectifying women (Signorielli 1989; Ward 2003), and allotting more diverse roles to men compared to women (Bretl ...
Though prior research offers persuasive findings regarding women’s subordinate status and men’s dominant status in media depictions in general, this study seeks to remedy certain limitations in some of the previous analyses of gender representations in music videos and to offer a unique perspective through focusing specifically on gender display. F...
An analysis of gender display in music videos is relevant, both for theoretical and sociological reasons, as it potentially serves to further knowledge of the media’s role in the social construction of gender. Though humans become “gendered” through multiple complex processes that are both conscious and unconscious, the media representations that a...
- Cara Wallis
- cwallis@tamu.edu
- 2011
Mar 12, 2023 · The particular way of looking which the male gaze describes can be seen across a multitude of cultural mediums. Despite being first identified by Mulvey in classical Hollywood cinema, the theory of the male gaze can be extended to apply to a number of different modes of pop culture today.
May 20, 2024 · Bregafunk music stands out among these genres, since its music videos highlight straight and virile men, by showing women, LGBTQIAPN+ individuals and fat bodies in a stigmatized way.
Jul 1, 2021 · A number of recent music videos by women subvert the male gaze (Mulvey) through a number of techniques I construe as “resistance gazes.” These videos subvert the hypersexualization, infantilization, objectification, and victimization regularly seen in music videos using imagery that resonates with broader cultural movements such as #metoo ...
Jul 1, 2011 · sexual objectification and its correlates in music videos. Our analysis compared sexual. objectification across artists’ gender and musical genres (R&B/hip hop, pop, and country). Compared to...
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The Male Gaze in Music Video. In the video for Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball,” the viewer sees Cyrus “displayed” (in Mulvey’s parlance) as a hypersexualized object.
