The disparity in how aging affects male and female careers is rooted in a fundamental economic logic: cinema, particularly mainstream commercial cinema, sells a specific fantasy of female desirability. Drawing on Laura Mulvey’s foundational theory of the "male gaze," the cinematic apparatus traditionally positions women as passive objects of visual pleasure. Youth, in this framework, is synonymous with beauty, fertility, and erotic availability. Age, conversely, signifies decay, loss of reproductive value, and a confronting mortality that disrupts the pleasure of the gaze.
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