Feminism in Hollyoaks

The male gaze can happen pretty much everywhere. Not just in the music industry but even in Hollyoaks. In the clip below is a collection of scenes to show how the male gaze is inflected in just one episode. It is focused on the character Mitzeee Minniver's and her first ever entrance to her start of Hollyoaks.



The first clip is a low angle shot of Mitzeee walking down the street with a short tight dress on turning the peoples heads around her to gaze at her. Even one woman looks her up and down. Eventually her dress starts to pull up about half way through the scene so she sexually pulls it down in a way that isn't needed. Along with the people around staring at her, the camera pans behind her and follows her in a way to show that the audience now are also applying the male gaze by watching her walk.

After her gazing walk down the street, she quickly stops and turns at a shop, the camera slowly moves to her face as she takes her sunglasses off and reveals her face for the first time, she fixes her self up and answers a phone call, the camera is now a close up on her face so we can understand the type of person she is.

Throughout the rest of the scenes Mitzeee is with one or more men. She acts in a seducing way towards each one in each scene when eventually changes clip to her on stage with a water gun getting wet. In only the first scene there is music. The song is called "She wants to move" which straight away is exactlly what she's doing to get everyones attention.

The History of Feminism.

Feminism has been around since 1945 when the second world war finished. As the war started all the men went of to fight for the country which left a huge gap of jobs open at home as because only the men would work as the woman and wives stayed home. But as the men were in war the woman took advantage of a man free world by taking there jobs and possibly doing them better than the men. They got awfully attached to each job until WW2 had finished. The men returned home to live there ordinary life as they did before the war but there was one problem. The woman had took control of every job and didn't want t go back to staying at home so took a stand to keep the jobs. All woman protested for there freedom and independence. They finally earned the respect the deserve and up until today have the equal level of authority as men do.

Applying Feminism!

Feminism in a music magazine is all about the main image on the front and how they are show as as an artist or weather they are coming across for the woman's body's.  They are shown to look attractive to give off a successful magazine.

Men are different than women on the covers because with men they show more of the musical side of them and do not care about the attractive side of them.

Woman are seen as housewives providing help and support for men because men refer to women as a sex object. This is a social system where the male has a higher class status over women. Media suggests that this is true and makes there authority higher as women are not show for there talent. They suggest that there status is higher and portray there roles over woman. On the cover above there are no signs of music. Cheryl Cole has no other purpose on the cover but to show her sexual side.

Beyond woman being treated as sex objects,  the image above of Beth Ditto lead singer of Gossip feels the need to show of her body on the front of the NME magazine to prove that not all woman are put on magazines to be seen as sex objects but are put on for there talent and to change the feelings of feminists opinions and views towards woman today. She believes that you don't have to look attractive to be on the cover of a music magazine.

On the cover above is Biffy Clyro, we immediately show our attention to Simon Neil (the middle main singer/guitarist) hugging the guitar. This shows his love for music and what he does. We see the group together with the guitar where as on the Cheryl Cole cover at the top we are focused on her beauty and attraction, not on her musical talent!