Laura Mulvey

Born: 1941-08-15

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmershe College, the London College of Printing, the University of East Anglia, and the British Film Institute. Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. Mulvey also was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s.


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Riddles of the Sphinx

as Herself / Voice Off
Released: 1977-09-02

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which...

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

as Self
Released: 2022-10-21

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking...

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The Amazed Spectator

as Herself
Released: 2016-01-29

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of...

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Angel in the House

as Extracts of Virginia Woolf
Released: 1978-01-01

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary...

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The Eye of the Beholder

as Self
Released: 2005-01-01

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with...

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Home Movies 1971-81

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-01

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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The Illusionists

as Herself
Released: 2015-01-01

Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives...

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Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move

as Self
Released: 2024-06-28

Chantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a...

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