Laura Mulvey writes in 'visual Pleasure and Narrative In Cinema', about the psychology behind cinema, and its use of sexuality. With this, she mainly focusses on the representation of women, and argues that cinema is specifically aimed towards heterosexual males. The two terms that Mulvey attributes to this are scopophilia and narcissism. Scopophilia is when a person gains pleasure from the objectification of another person, and uses narcissism to say that the viewer needs and makes a self imposed image within the film, a heroic character they can see themselves as. These are both used and exploited for men and the 'Male gaze' writes Mulvey.
R. Dyers speaks against these ideas though, choosing to analyse the portrayal of men, and finding them to in some instances also be objectified for women. He talks of the attitude o men within film, portrayed in a manner that would be threatening and aggressive, to divert from their 'erotic potential'
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