In this blog, I will explore Laura Mulvey’s feminist film theory on how women are represented and perceived in traditional media. I will then examine how Fleabag is an excellent response to her critique, particularly through subverting the concept of the “male gaze”. To start, I will give a brief breakdown of Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. In Mulvey’s essay, she criticized how traditional cinema caters to heterosexual men and objectifies women. This reduces women to objects of desire, rather than human beings with substance and complexities. This is what Mulvey…