Modernity is actually referred to a historical, political, or cultural idea of controlling nature through technology, science and rationalism. In fact, modernity doesn’t really have a specific date; historians have always debated about the actual time. Modernity reached its peak in the 19th century when people started moving from rural areas to cities. Some of the most important changes in modernity were the technological and social changes but a concern of the cost of technology. We are spectators and the concept of spectatorship is mandatory to understand the modern idea noting that the spectator is the one who looks and the spectatorship is the “practice of looking”. This chapter describes the relationship between the gaze and the spectatorship. The gaze is what describes a perfect anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. Photography is one of the most important tools to establish the difference between masculine and feminine or black and white. Male viewers mostly examined the paintings. Nude woman were posed as objects of a “male’s gaze”, they were considered as gazing at themselves in a mirrors with their bodies towards the spectators. Finally, one of the most important is in the cinema. Cinema plays a big role in the psychoanalytic film theory, it allows the person to be in a childlike state, allowing the spectators ego to own the bodies in the screen, it is basically a matter of the existing and the unconscious.
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