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Visual and other pleasures / Laura Mulvey.

By: Mulvey, Laura [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Language, discourse, society: Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Edition: Second edition.Description: xxxvi, 232 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230576469 (hardback); 023057646X (hardback); 9781403992468 (paperback); 1403992460 (paperback).Subject(s): Women in motion pictures | Motion pictures and women | Feminism and motion picturesDDC classification: 791.436522
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- 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 -- Changes : thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- The Oedipus myth : beyond the riddles of the Sphinx -- Thoughts on the young modern woman of the 1920s and feminist film theory.
Summary: The essays republished in this new 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 This edition also includes a previously unpublished essay in which Mulvey discusses images and narratives of the 'young modern woman' of the 1920s, through examples of films made both in Hollywood and Europe,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. -- Back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Previous edition: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- 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 -- Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- 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 -- Changes : thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- The Oedipus myth : beyond the riddles of the Sphinx -- Thoughts on the young modern woman of the 1920s and feminist film theory.

The essays republished in this new 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. -- Back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to Second Edition Introduction to First
  • Part I Iconoclasm The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World 1970 Fears, Fantasies and the Male Unconsciousor'You Don't Know What is Happening, Do You Mr Jones?'
  • Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
  • Part II Melodrama
  • Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' inspired by King Vidor'sDuel In The Sun(1946) Notes on Sirk and Melodrama Fassbinder and Sirk Images of Women, Images of Sexuality: Some Films
  • Melodrama Inside and Outside the Home
  • Part III On The Margins Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
  • Part IV 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'sCorpus
  • Part V Boundaries
  • Changes: Thoughts on Myth, Narrative and Historical Experience
  • The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx The Young Modern Woman of the 1920s and Feminist Film Theory

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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).

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