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Feminist film theory plays a crucial role in examining the concept of spectatorship. Ruby Rich puts it this way:
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Stefanovic, P., Parać, A.G. (2021). Male Gaze and Visual Pleasure in Laura Mulvey. In: Purgar, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71830-5_21
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