Visual and Other Pleasures

by Mulvey, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780230576469
• ISBN10: 023057646X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."

Author Biography

LAURA MULVEY is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She rose to prominence in the 1970s as an influential feminist film theorist and critic. Her most recent book is Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction to Second Edition Introduction to First

Iconoclasm The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World 1970 Fears, Fantasies and the Male Unconsciousor'You Don't Know What is Happening, Do You Mr Jones?'

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Melodrama

Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' inspired by King Vidor'sDuel In The Sun(1946) Notes on Sirk and Melodrama Fassbinder and Sirk Images of Women, Images of Sexuality: Some Films

Melodrama Inside and Outside the Home

On The Margins Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

Avant-Garde

Film, Feminism and the Avant-Garde Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin 'Magnificent Obsession': An Introduction to the Work of Five Photographers Impending Time: Mary Kelly'sCorpus

Boundaries

Changes: Thoughts on Myth, Narrative and Historical Experience

The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx The Young Modern Woman of the 1920s and Feminist Film Theory

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