Laura mulvey

We all know Laura mulvey's theory on the male gaze, however we have covered the basic aspects of the theory and i have come across her essay which talks about her theory in more detail and delievers her opinions. Her theory has most likely derived from the first wave of feminism during the 1920's and it expresse the role of the woman since before, during and after those times.

The title of the essay is 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema', i haven't found the complete essay and im not going to post the essay on my blog but i have found extracts of the essay and i will supply the link: http://www.jahsonic.com/VPNC.html

General biography of Laura mulvey: Laura Mulvey was born in Oxford on 15 August 1941. After studying history at St. Hilda's, Oxford University, she came to prominence in the early 1970s as a film theorist, writing for periodicals such as Spare Rib and Seven Days. Much of her early critical work investigated questions of spectatorial identification and its relationship to the male gaze, and her writings, particularly the 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, helped establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field of study.

Between 1974 and 1982 Mulvey co-wrote and co-directed with her husband, Peter Wollen, six projects: theoretical films, dealing in the discourse of feminist theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis and leftist politics. The first of these, Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) explored concerns central to Mulvey's writings: the position of women in relation to patriarchal myth, symbolic language and male fantasy. Penthesilea represents an experimental British venture into territory pioneered by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard. With its counter-cinema style and relentlessly didactic approach, however, its appeal was inevitably limited to a restricted audience.

Some films she has helped create: Riddles of the sphinx (1977)

AMY! (1980)

Crystal gazing (1982)

Frida kahlo and tina modotti (1982)

The bad sister (1982)