One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case,… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share
It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
