Visual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society) - Softcover

Mulvey, L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403992460 ISBN 13: 9781403992468

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

A new edition of Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking collection of essays, originally published in 1989. In an extensive introduction to this second edition, Mulvey looks back at the historical and personal contexts for her famous article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema , and reassesses her theories in the light of new technologies.

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Review:

Laura Mulvey did not invent feminist film criticism, but her short piece "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is a seminal essay, cited more often than almost any other single article on the movies. Mulvey brought psychoanalysis, the experience of pleasure, and the idea of the male gaze into the mainstream of feminist film criticism. Visual and Other Pleasures reprints her famous analysis along with other important essays on film melodrama, avant-garde cinema, the Oedipus myth, and directors Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Jean-Luc Godard. Unlike many academic critics, Mulvey writes with refreshing clarity. Arguments that in other hands might seem dense and thorny are both comprehensible and enlightening here. --Raphael Shargel

From the Back Cover:

This long awaited collection of essays will be required reading for anyone interested in feminism, film, and avant-garde practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1403992460
• ISBN 13: 9781403992468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 268