In recent media studies lessons we have been learning about what the male gaze means and how it may affect the way in which the audience understands media. 

In feminist philosophy "the male gaze" is the act of depicting the world and women in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine and heterosexual point of view, which present women as objects of male pleasure, and as a result woman look at themselves through the eyes of men in the media.

The theory of "the Male Gaze" was created by Laura Mulvey. Laura is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media.

The male gaze can sometime be hard to find in media but it is shown when females are represented only by how they seem to the hero or the male in the movie or media type.
It is often hidden but most females are only shown as they may be seen by a male for example for their sexuality. This can be seen in the picture of a set of a James bond film.