Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Quotes

“Woman's desire is subjugated to her image (...) as bearer, not maker, of meaning.”
― Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

“It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article.”
― Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

“Sadism demands a story, depends on making something happen, forcing a change in another person, a battle of will and strength, victory/defeat, all occurring in a linear time with a beginning and an end.”
― Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

“Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by im- posing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”
― Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema