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Visual and Other Pleasures
by
Laura Mulvey
This is a new edition of Laura Mulvey’s groundbreaking collection of essays, originally published in 1989. in an extensive introduction to this second edition, Mulvey looks back at the historical and personal contests for her famous article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, and reassesses her theories in the light of new technologies.
Hardcover, Updated Second Edition, 256 pages
Published
April 15th 2009
by Palgrave Macmillan
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Michelle
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Like many students my age, my first introduction (and for a long time my only introduction) to Laura Mulvey was through her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." In this work, Mulvey outlines the dynamics of cinema as voyeurism, both for the audience and for the characters on screen. She coins the term "the male gaze" in this article, a descriptor of images made to appeal to men, with women as object rather than subject of the film.
Maybe I took a few too many p...more
Maybe I took a few too many p...more
Laura Mulvey is brilliant. Her work literally changed the way cinema and the visual was viewed. It is a seminal book in film theory and feminist theory. It probably changed your life and you didn't even know it.
The book/paper is however getting old and as with many things, it is beginning to show its age.
The book/paper is however getting old and as with many things, it is beginning to show its age.
i'd read the central essay (from which the title is adapted) a number of times for my university in olde britannia and when i saw 'er at a booksale at a museum in the "self-help" section i said to myself, "self," i said, "this joke is just funny enough to read more about the gaze: you ought help your self to this book, eh?" so i did.
Well, who ever liked pleasure anyway? Or beauty, for that matter. Or patriarchy.
Yes, beauty, pleasure, and patriarchy are now things I can do without.
Fie on them!
Fie!
But, thank you, I'll keep Hitchcock.
Yes, beauty, pleasure, and patriarchy are now things I can do without.
Fie on them!
Fie!
But, thank you, I'll keep Hitchcock.
This woman only single-handedly de-railed contemporary feminist thinking regarding how the female image is regarded in current theory about cinema and film--a must read for anyone interested in "the movies"
A must read for any film critic, feminist or not. She is a good foundation to any feminist film theory discussion.
Ruth Marner
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Carrie
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