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The essays republished in this edition of Laura Mulvey’s 1989 collection Visual and Other Pleasures reflect the high optimism of the Women’s Movement in the 1970s, its engagement with Hollywood melodrama, psychoanalytic theory and avant-garde film. In an extensive new introduction, Mulvey looks back at the origins of her groundbreaking article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (originally published in Screen in 1975) and reflects on its historical and autobiographical contexts. She reassesses her 1975 theories in the light of her more recent work on the impact of new technologies, particularly the digital, on film spectatorship. This edition also includes a previously unpublished essay in which Mulvey discusses images and narratives of the 'young modern woman’ of the 1920s, through examples of films made both in Hollywood and Europe, and looks at their relevance for feminist film theory.

 

Table of contentsNew Introduction: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in the Light of New Technologies (2006) * Introduction (1989) * Acknowledgements * PART 1: ICONOCLASM * The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World 1970 * Fears, Fantasies and the Male Unconscious, or 'You Don't Know What is Happening, Do You Mr.Jones?' * Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema * PART 2: MELODRAMA * Afterthoughts on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946) * Notes on Sirk and Melodrama * Fassbinder and Sirk * Images of Women, Images of Sexuality: Some Films by J.L.Godard * Melodrama Inside and Outside the Home * PART 3: ON THE MARGINS * Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti * PART 4: 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's Corpus * PART 5: BOUNDARIES * Changes: Thoughts on Myth, Narrative and Historical Experience * The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx * Afterthoughts: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in the Light of Historical ContextLaura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position.During the 2008-09 academic year, Mulvey will be the Mary Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College.