Laura Mulvey
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.
Riddles of the Sphinx
as Herself / Voice OffIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which...
Movie pageBrainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
as SelfInvestigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking...
Movie pageThe Amazed Spectator
as HerselfA kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of...
Movie pageAngel in the House
as Extracts of Virginia WoolfInspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary...
Movie pageThe Eye of the Beholder
as SelfA series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with...
Movie pageHome Movies 1971-81
as uncreditedHome movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Movie pageThe Illusionists
as HerselfSex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives...
Movie pageChantal Akerman - Always on the Move
as SelfChantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a...
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