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The role of women in cinema and in society is analyzed by various writers: Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. In their essays, the authors make assumptions about gender and how it structures the culture industries. Speaking on the patriarchal structures of cinema and society, Mulvey, along with the other writers, states that women are objects of the male sex. Men take the controlling position as women take on the submissive role. Berger, as well as the other authors, elaborates on the role of females in society and culture and goes on to explain how they are viewed as images by men, the “bearers of the look.” The film The Truman Show challenges and extends much of the issues and concerns of the feminist analysis made by Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. As Laura Mulvey states in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” females are the focus of attention in cinema; however, The Truman Show contradicts this idea. Mulvey makes the assumption that in today’s society, women are the center of cinematic gaze and are the ones favored to be the objects. She goes on to explain that the audience favors a female figure as the object of attention because of erotic identity: “The determining male gaze projects its fantasy ont