Classical cinema is structured around a male gaze: women are positioned to be looked at, men to do the looking.
The longer story
Mulvey's 'male gaze' analysed how classical Hollywood cinema positions viewers as masculine, watching women as objects. The camera's look, the protagonist's look, the audience's look align in visual pleasure structured by patriarchy. Women are 'to-be-looked-at.' Her 1975 essay catalysed feminist film theory and remains essential for any analysis of visual representation. The challenge: how do you make images differently? How do other media construct their gazes? Who looks at whom, and with what pleasure?