Mulvey, Metz and Bellor - Male gaze: the woman is the subject
Kaplan - submissive female gaze: looking at the film through the eyes of the secondary female
Williams - Dominant gaze: the woman gets punished for having sexual control
Crazy/Beautiful
-This 2002 film contrasts these theories of how characters are viewed by spectators.
-In some respects, the main character Nicole is seen as the subject but very rarely sexualised, excluding the ideas of the male gaze being over-powering in this film
-The film does follow Kaplan's theories of the submissive female gaze, as the story is partly told through the eyes of Nicole and we side with her as an audience, we are also shown the story through the perspective of Carlos, her other half
-Williams' theory of the dominant gaze is not-existant in this film; Nicole does not get punished for having sexual control - the only part of this film that she is punished for is her reckless and rebellious behaviour which results in under-age drinking
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