How has Laura Mulvey enanced your understanding of Vertigo?

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist who created the concept of the Male Gaze in her essay titled 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema'. The Male Gaze is the idea that viewers of a film are forced to view a film through the eyes of a heterosexual male. The theory suggests that women are denied  human identity and are reduced to physical objects, or a collection of body, not connected for viewing. This is exactly the case for Vertigo, not a single woman is represented as strong, or independent, but all dependent on men and commanded by men, constantly.
The scene that identifies this and shows it perfectly is the scene where we first see Madeleine. It starts off with a mid shot of Scottie, then an unconventional track left as we see what he is gazing at, like a predator looking at his prey, obsessed. Once the camera spots Madeleine, it tracks forward, connoting pure obsession with Madeleine for both Scottie and the spectator. We are given no choice but to gave at her constantly and in one shot. We can apply Mulvey's theory to this very shot, the protagonist gazing at her is male, the director who we know is obsessed with Kim Novak who constructed the scene through his sub conscious ideas on women. We are forced to gaze from a heterosexual males perspective. Further on in the scene where Madeleine walks into the light, and stands still, allowing Scottie and us again to gaze, mesmerized as she walks into the light, primarily to be gazed at, or to show 'to-be-looked-at-ness'.
Anther way in which Mulvey enhances the understanding of Vertigo is in the scene where Scottie choose exactly what Judy wears in the tailors. When he is picking out the suit, Judy tells him she doesn't like the grey suit that Madeleine wore, but Scottie completely ignores her request, and no one questions it. She clearly is distressed but even the women who work there joke about it and move on.  Another way we see the Male Gaze in the scene is when the models are walking up and down with the different suits on, and Scottie gets to gaze as he pleases at the models trying on the suits, and so do we through the lens and the perspective of the director.
The character of Midge is interesting, because Scottie is supposed to feel no feelings for her, so the directors way to show this is through making her look as unattractive as possible. When her and Scottie are talking about their past relationship, we get a weird, high angle of Midge twice, making her look unattractive to the audience and a bit weird. It is worth noting that Hitchcock used the method of making Midge look unattractive in order for the spectator to prefer gazing at Madeleine over her.
Hitchcock himself is widely known to have a weird relationship with women. Pretty much like Scotties towards the end of the film. Hitchcock was described as possessive and controlling by past female actors. And after Vertigo, he essentially ruined Kim Novak's career. This is why we are able to see such an exaggerated view on women, because the person constructing the representation has such views on women, and we can see it showcased in the representation he gives through his subconscious decisions in film.