Gaze

• Indirect Gaze
• Direct Gaze

My Opinion:

I think Gaze is a relationship between viewer and the demand.

When the relationship between viewer and demand be changed, the viewer can got different feeling.
we can view a gaze by different way, even we view the same thing, still can got different feeling.


About Gaze from WIKI:

The gaze is characterised by who is the gazer (viewer):

* The spectator's gaze: that of the spectator viewing the text, i.e. the reader(s) of the text.
* The Intra-diegetic gaze: in a text, a character gazes upon an object or another character in the text.
* The Extra-diegetic gaze: a textual character consciously addresses (looks at) the viewer, e.g. in dramaturgy, an aside to the audience; in cinema, acknowledgement of the fourth wall, the viewer.
* The camera's gaze: is the film director's gaze.
* The editorial gaze: emphasizes a textual aspect, e.g. a photograph, its cropping and caption direct the reader(s) to a specific person, place, or object in the text.

Theorists Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen posit that the gaze is a relationship, between offering and demanding a gaze: the indirect gaze is the spectator's offer, wherein the spectator initiates viewing the subject, who is unaware of being viewed; the direct gaze is the subject's demand to be viewed.