Laura Mulvey's male gaze theory is evident throughout different aspects of the media. For example, Robin Thicke's blurred lines music video (as pictured above) features many half naked women dancing around fully clothed men as they stare and sexualise them. Another similar music video is Justin Timberlake's Tunnel Vision, in which many women are completely naked and vulnerable, purely for the enjoyment of the male audience. In the video, Justin Timberlake is projected onto a woman's bare body. This represents ownership of the woman and objectifies her. The mise en scene of the video is very sexual and evident the men are in control as they are fully clothed and the women are not. The video is extremely degrading to women and treats them like objects owned by men. This idea is used in many other music videos and even in TV and film. An example of this is the critically acclaimed 'The Wolf of Wall Street' in which many women appear naked, out of control, objectified and vulnerable. This theme is repeated in the huge HBO series Game of Thrones, which features a great amount of female nudity throughout the series, and yet almost no male nudity. This represents the gender bias in the media and emphasises Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze.
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