Planning: Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey identifies that music videos portray women as dismembered, by only showing parts of their body to impress the male audience. Women are usually presented as objects in RnB type videos. The music video, “Holiday” by Dizzee Rascal shown below is evidence of Mulvey’s statement, where the singer is surrounded by a bunch of women, and only glimpses of their body is shown. Mulvey introduces the idea of the male gaze, when in film men are more active while women are subjected to being passive.

The camera is shown to linger on the female body, and events which occur to women are largely presented in the context of a man's reaction to these events. I have found that many music videos sexualise the female body which has nothing to do with the video itself; in most occasions the female must experience the narrative by identification of the male, than herself.