Ekpootu, Mfon Umoren2023-12-122023-12-122012-02-04Corinn Columpar, 2002, The Gaze as Theoretical Touchstone: the Intersection of Film Studies, Feminist Theory, and Postcolonial Theory Women's Studies Quarterly. Volume: 30. Issue: 1/2. Publication Year: 2002. www.questia.com deCordova, Richard [1987] Richard deCordova Responds to Miriam Hansen’sPleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship Cinema Journal Vol. 26 (3) Spring, pp. 55-57 Doane, Mary A [1982] Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator Screen Vol. 23 (3-4) pp 74-88 Esan, Oluyinka [2008] ‘Appreciating Nolly wood: Audiences and Nigerian 'Films Particip@tions Volume 5 (1) Special Edition Felluga, Dino. Modules on Jacques Lacan. Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Purdue U, January 31, 2011. Web May 8, 2012. Gaines,'Jane [1986] ‘White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory’ Cultural Critique (4) pp 59-79 Green-Simms, Lindsey and Azuah, Unoma [2012] ‘The Video Closet: Nollywood’s Gay-Themed Movies’ Transition No. 107, Blending Borders pp32-49 Griffin, Andrew [2006] ‘Ram Alley and Female Spectatorship’ Early Theatre No. 9 (2) http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/vol9/iss2/6, Accessed February 2011]https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3420Classic feminist film theories drawing from psychoanalysis deny the neutrality o f the cinematic apparatus and posit a male gaze in films that obliterate the feminine on and off screen. Exemplified by Laura Mulvey's seminal work Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema’ , the positioning of women in such an analysis renders the female spectator non-existent or needing recourse to either a masochistic identification with the sexually objectified female or a transsexual alignment with the active male subject for active spectator ship. Anchored in a historically specific period of classical Hollywood cinema, how useful is Laura Mulvey’s argument of the ‘male gaze’ and the passive exhibitionist role of women in films as an analytical tool for female spectatorship in NigeriaenVideo Films, Female Spectatorship, Deconstructing, Male GazeArticle