'Gaze' means to look intently with fixed attention.
Laura Mulvey is apart of the second wave on feminism and in 1975 wrote an essay 'on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
This is used to explain why and where the male attention is held in music videos.
Mulvey says that the mainstream Hollywood "coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order"
She discovered that Men will look at Women as if they were objects and see themselves solely as a spectator. She also goes on to say that this voyeuristic way of looking at women came about through heterosexual men being behind and in control of the camera.
Usually her chest or curves will be highlighted more during a video through close ups and slow motion to make them more prominent. Furthermore, women also adapt to the male gaze theory when watching other women. They objectify them and are 'fixed' on them in the same way.
An example of Male Gaze in music videos:
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