Revenge, Attachment and Nameless: Investigating Male Gaze in Lost in the Star Through Gender Construction Theory
Abstract
Gender has always been a popular topic of discussion. According to numerous studies on the subject of gender, Women have historically been marginalised. Film, as a tool to influence people'’s ideologies, will greatly construct gender relations. However, many film studies have been done on how gender shapes women'’s roles, yet it has been determined that the majority of them concentrate on women in the 20th century, which may produce a disconnection with today'’s society. This study selects three female characters from the 2023 domestic suspense film Lost in the Star, which focuses on the new era of women in the 21st century and is controversial. Using Simone de Beauvoir'’s theory of social construction and the Mako Mori test, this study will investigate whether the 21st-century mass media'’s construction of women still implies the male gaze. This study reveals that the mass media still implicitly conceals the male gaze in today'’s culture. Gender studies should continually monitor cutting-edge publications and examine how gender views are evolving over time. Based on this, gender studies should continue to plough deeper and deeper into affirmative work.
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