Visual and Other Pleasures: Collected Writings by Laura Mulvey (English) Paperba

Description: Visual and Other Pleasures by Laura Mulvey The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the womens movement shift into feminism and the development of feminisms involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the womens movement shift into feminism and the development of feminisms involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics.;The essays also tell, implicitly, a personal story - of someone gradually learning to express themselves in writing through feminism and becoming visibly more articulate over the course of time. Central to the collection is Mulveys famous polemic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Mulvey has directed six films with Peter Wollen and is a major British cultural theorist. Author Biography Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Visual and Other Pleasures (1989; 2009), and the BFI Film Classic onCitizen Kane (1992; 2012). Table of Contents Part 1 Iconoclasm: the spectacle is vulnerable - Miss World 1971; fears, fantasies and the male unconscious or "you dont 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 Vidors "Duel in the Sun" 1946; Fassbinder and Sirk; notes on Sirk and melodrama; images of women, images of sexuality - some films by J.L.Godard; melodrama inside and outside the home. Part 3: Frido Kahlo and Tina Medotti. Part 4 Avant-Garde: film, feminism and the avant-garde; Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin; "Magnificent Obsession"; impending time - Mary Kellys "Corpus". Part 5: changes. Details ISBN0333445295 Author Laura Mulvey Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 1989 ISBN-10 0333445295 ISBN-13 9780333445297 Format Paperback Publication Date 1989-03-01 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Collected Writings Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 305.4 Media Book Series Language, Discourse, Society Place of Publication Basingstoke Language English Edition 09002nd Short Title VISUAL & OTHER PLEASURES 1989/ Edition Description 1989 Affiliation Birbeck College, University of London, UK Pages 215 Illustrations XVI, 215 p. Replaced by 9781403992468 UK Release Date 1989-03-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:99139821;

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