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Mon, 2nd Jul '12, 1:10am	#1
RPGWatch SPS Account Holder Watching... Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 3,495 Like: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Gamasutra - Male Gaze and Video games Brandon Sheffield from EIC has written a lengthy editorial on Gamasutra about this issue. He uses the Hitman: Absolution trailer as a foundation for his statement about how women are still being used to show boobs and butts, not only in games, but within the culture at large, saying this is a natural extension of who we put in charge. A quote about the Male Gaze: Male Gaze, then, has to do with the relationship between a heterosexual male viewer, and a female that is being viewed. The theory poses that in media like film, photography, and I would here add games, when a heterosexual male is in charge of the viewing of a female, the resulting media necessarily reflects that male's gaze. In the case of games, this may be more of a collective gaze.
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