Laura Mulvey
British feminist film theorist: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and the male gaze.
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- Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker.
- Her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in Screen in 1975, helped bring the term "male gaze" into film criticism.
- She is Emerita Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
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- Born
- 15 August 19411
- Known for
- "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (Screen, 1975)1
- Academic
- Emerita Professor, Birkbeck; Honorary Professor of Film, University of St Andrews1
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