Laura Mulvey - Film Theorist, Media Scholar, Filmaker

In 1975, Laura Mulvey, popularized the “Male Gaze” and the “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” These theories about film and cinema relate to how stills and shots depict the superiority of men and submissiveness of women in such medium. It gives us the message of a film through the perspective of a heterosexual male which leads to focus on the women in the film. These give the viewers a chance to take a closer look at the video to see beyond the surface message of it.
In Laura Mulvey’s theory, Phallocentrism is being discussed. It is said that women have this innate desire to have a penis. What makes men who they are is the existence of their external genitalia. And as we all know, men are dominant and women are submissive. And women have always had this dream of turning the tables around.
As a young woman I understand that there is a pleasure of being looked at. This love of looking is called 'Scopophilia'.
In Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” music video, The woman/figure of woman is objectified as a symbol for visual pleasure and sexual entertainment, contrary to the surface message of the text which shows the breaking free of the woman from her marginal position. Also, if close read, the video depicts the woman as marginalized and submissive to man.