Bio
Laura Mulvey Feminist Theorist, Film Theorist Contemporary
Fields: Film, Feminism
Years: 1941 - Present
Works
Works: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,
KnownFor: male gaze, intersection of human psychology and cultural representation, relation between eroticism, narrative, and power
KeyIdeas:
Contemporary feminist theorist popularized “male gaze” talks screen and film theory
talks about representation
borrows from Psychoanalytic School of Thought, in particular from Freud and Lacan.