LAURA MULVEY- The Male Gaze

Mirror Stage
Lacan’s term used to describe the stage at which a child realises they are a person independent of their mother.
Narcissism
Excessive or erotic interest in the self.
Scopophilia
The pleasure of watching what shouldn’t be seen.
Voyeuristic gaze
A gaze which objectifies the recipient of the gaze in a non-sexual manner, rather through admiration.
Fetishistic gaze
A gaze which objectifies the recipient of the gaze in a sexual manner.
To-be-looked-at-ness
The way in which a character is constructed, using media language (through the framing of shots and position of the camera) to be objectified by another character or the audience’s gaze.
Intra-diegetic gaze
The gaze of one character of another within the narrative world of the film.
Extra-diegetic gaze
The gaze of a character out of the narrative to the audience, generally making eye contact and connoting their awareness of being watched.
Nouvelle Vague
French New Wave. A movement in French national cinema which rejected the established way of doing things by employing experimental film making techniques.

The female gaze: accepts that women can also gain voyeuristic pleasure from looking at a subject, and that film techniques can sometimes be used to position the female audience to do so.