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The Gaze - A term to describe the relationship of looking in which the subject is caught up in the dynamics of desire through trajectories of looking and being looked at. The gaze can be motivated by the subject's desire for control over the object it sees, and an object that can likewise capture and hold the look. The gaze is not something in which it performs but rather is the relation in which one is caught up. In traditional psychoanalytic theory, the gaze is ultimately linked to fantasy. Gaze theory was updated by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who put the gaze at the centre of his approach to how individuals enact desire. Michel Foucault uses the term gaze to describe the relationship of subjects within a network of power- and mechanism the mechanism of vision as a means of negotiating and conveying power within that network- in a constitutional context. The Gaze is not something one has or uses, rather, it is the spacial and institutionally bound relationship into which someone enters. - Kaia

Traditionally, the woman displayed has functioned on two different levels: as erotic object for the characters within the screen story, as as erotic object for the spectator within the auditorium. The man controls the film phantasy and also emerges as the representative of power in a further sense: as the bearer of the look of the spectator, transferring it behind the screen to neutralize the extra-diegetic tendencies represented by woman as a spectacle. - Kaia

The woman, as an icon, displayed for the gaze and enjoyment of men, the active controllers of the look, always threatens to evoke the anxiety it originally signified. The image of a woman as (passive) raw material for the (active) gaze of man takes the argument a step further into the structure of representation, adding a further layer demanded by the ideology of the patriarchal order as it is worked out in its favorite cinematic form - illusionistic narrative film. - Kaia

The context in which looking practices are engaged the fiend is called The Gaze. The gaze is the act of looking. The term gaze sometimes carries connotations of looking long and intently with affection, awe, wonder, or fascination. The concept of the Gaze has been used in specific ways by visual theorists to emphasize the embeddedness of the gaze of the individual viewer in a social and contextual field of looks, objects and other sensory information. To gaze is to enter into a relational activity of looking. The concept of the gaze plays a central role in theories of looking and spectatorship in modernity, the historical, economic, and cultural context that saw the rise of industrialization, urbanization, and scientific rationalization over the past few centuries. - Kaia

The concept of the gaze and spectatorship remain important cornerstones of visual studies because they provide a set of terms and methods through which to consider some aspects of looking practices that the concept of the viewer does not really allow us to consider in depth. These are the roles of the unconcious and desire in viewing practices; the role of looking in the formation of the human subject as such; and the ways that looking is always a relational activity and not a mental activity engaged in by someone who forms internal representations that stand for a passive image object "out there". - Kaia

A person who achieves a sense of himself or herself as an individual human subject, not only his or her eyes and in the eyes of others but also in a world of natural and cultural places, things, and technologies that together make up the fiend of the gaze. Foucault provided a classic example of the Gaze as being something enacted through a spacialized field in his discussion of Las Meninas (1656) one of the most analysed paintings in the history of art. - Kaia

The gaze is constituted through a relationship of subjects defined within and through the discourses of institutions. The gaze is integral to systems of power and ideas about knowledge. Jeremy Bentham helped Foucault elaborate of the idea of a inspecting gaze. - Kaia

The gaze is part and parcel of a desire for completion of oneself though the other. Lacan emphasizes that the gaze is a property of the object and not the subject who looks. The gaze is a process in which the object functions to make the subject look, making the subject appear to himself or herself as lacking. This concept allows us to understand how the inanimate object can be an active player in the processes of sexual desire. - Kaia

Mulvey's key factors in her essay in the original concept of The Gaze has been rethought is the way that it could not account for the pleasures of female viewers or for the male figure as the object of the gaze. - Kaia

There are many kinds of gazes at play in the visual culture of modernity, from the cinematic predecessors such as the panorama to the cinematic gaze to the gazes at work in the urban environment of pedestrians, commerce, and mall display. - Kaia

The gaze, whether institutional or individual, thus helps to establish relationships of power. - kaia