Rear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) have very different plots but still have many striking similarities, such as the manipulation of the spectator’s gaze. Gaze is the transaction between the screen and a spectator. Two examples of the types of gazes used in these films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie viewing and gender roles during the 1950’s by featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex objects. …showed first 75 words of 1467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1467 total…needed to control the threat women make to male’s castration. The films Rear Window and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes both take place during the 50’s where women’s roles were trying to be contained, and women were basically seen as sexual objects. These views can be represented in the use of gender by the manipulating gaze- voyeuristic and fetishistic. Gender roles are also formed by the films representation of female characters as shallow and dumb.