Citation

Derné S, Jadwin L. Contrib. Indian Sociol. 2000; 34(2): 243-269.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/006996670003400204

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This ethnographic study of male filmgoers in India supports Mulvey's contention that cinema bolsters male power by prompting men to make women objects of a controlling gaze. But it also shows that Indian male filmgoers both objectify and identify with on-screen male images. This identification prompts men to see themselves as framed by a controlling gaze. Thus, a clear-cut distinction between looking men and watched women is not a uni versal feature of male dominance.