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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Male Gaze in Troy

I feel like I was a teenager and I just have such a grasp on what it was like back then. And you can kind of see, you can just know exactly why and how everything happened the way that it did. It comes down to the gaze. One of the issues of films like Troy is they are these masculine film genres aimed predominantly at male audiences,. But they have the male body on display. That's inherently kind of, it causes these problems for the audience because you have men looking at the male body as this.

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