This is quite interesting in the light of the previous posts on the male gaze.
Don Anderson is following a line of argument that is
'...directly confronting is the long-standing idea that the male gaze is inherently sadistic/active while the feminine is passive. This style of theorizing derives from and is most often associated with Laura Mulvey, who in her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” outlines a model that fails to account for the female spectator's gaze while relying on the male’s sadistic gaze for its criticism. "The man controls the film phantasy and also emerges as the representative of power in a further sense: as the bearer of the look of the spectator, transferring it behind the screen to neutralize the extra-diegetic tendencies represented by woman as spectacle"'.