Visual and Other Pleasures

by Mulvey, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781403992468
• ISBN10: 1403992460
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This 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'. She argues that new technologies of film consumption have altered visual pleasure, its relation to narrative, and have thus affected theories of gendered spectatorship. In a new essay, specifically written for this edition, the author turns to the cinematic representation of the 'young modern woman' of the 1920s, suggesting that historical context also affects theories of visual pleasure.

Author Biography

LAURA MULVEY is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her most recent book is Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Reflections on Stillness in the Moving Image.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction to Second Edition

Introduction to First Edition

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

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

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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