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Laura Mulvey's importance and influence as a feminist filmmaker and theorist are explored in depth with critical essays by scholars, new conversations with filmmakers and thinkers, and previously unpublished writings by Mulvey herself.

With the publication of her influential 1975 essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', film theorist Laura Mulvey became a key figure in the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, imagining and affirming feminist ways of seeing. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Laura Mulvey: Feminist Legacies looks beyond Mulvey's contributions to the feminist seventies, and the assumption of its political limitations. Instead, by connecting her roles as film director, theorist, writer, and activist, established and emerging scholars re-emphasize the radical intent of Mulvey's theoretical and practical interventions. In doing so, they assert that her oeuvre articulates a sensibility and mode of inquiry that has been formative for feminist interventions into visual culture around the globe.

Including previously unpublished examples of her writing, along with new conversations with Martine Beugnet, Sheila Rowbotham, Yvonne Rainer, and Adeena Mey, this collection illuminates the histories that have shaped Mulvey's contributions to feminist film, art, thought, and politics. By tracing how Mulvey's work is a vital part of the feminist concerns of the present, the book makes it clear that not only are Mulvey's investigations into feminist visual culture ongoing, they also anticipate and impact scholarly directions in sensation, affect, materiality, race, and technology that are playing out within contemporary feminist debates.

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Table of Contents

Introducing Mulvey's Legacies, Kimberly Lamm & Anna Backman Rogers

Part 1 Discovering Fantasies, Expanding Pleasures in the Work of Laura Mulvey

1. 'The Hole Truth' (1973)
2. 'Cinema Magic and the Old Monsters: Angela Carter's Cinema' (1992)
3. 'Cinema, Sync Sound and Europe 1929: Reflections on Coincidence', (2003) with a prefatory note by Larry Sider
4. 'Thoughts on the Young Modern Woman of the 1920s and Feminist Film Theory' (2009)
5. 'Love in Two British Films of the Late Silent Period: Hindle Wakes (Maura Elvy, 1927) and Picadilly (E.A. Du Point, 1929)' (2012)
6. 'Max Ophuls: Three Films of Doomed Romance'
7. 'Dislocations: Some Reflections on the Colonial Compilation Film'
8. 'Kahlo/Modotti Forty Years Later'
9. 'Fragments of My Film Past in My Film Future'

Part 2 Impacts and Inheritances

10. 'Penthesilea', Mary Kelly (1974)
11. 'The Bad Sister', Lucy Fischer (1989)
12. 'Mulvey's Manifesto', Mandy Merck (2007)
13. 'Mulvey's Legacy', Yvonne Rainer (2006)
14. 'Returning to Riddles', Catherine Grant (2020)
15. 'Passionate Detachment', Nicolas Helm-Grovas (2021)
16. 'Conversation/Memory', Mary Ann Doane (2017)
17. 'My Mulvey', Sarah Cooper (2017)

Part 3 Ongoing Discussions

18. 'Utopian Aspirations and the Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s': Yvonne Rainer and Laura Mulvey in Conversation
19. 'to give documentation the force of argument': Laura Mulvey in conversation with Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas
20. 'The New Cinema Machine, the Uncanny, and the Question of Gender': Laura Mulvey and Annie van den Oever in Dialogue

Part 4 New Openings and Further Investigations

21. Marilyn 24x a Second: Some Reflections on Mulvey's Monroe, Anna Backman Rogers
22. Laura Mulvey's Iconoclasm from Miss World to Disgraced Monuments, Alexandra Kokoli
23. 'The Voice Asking a Riddle': Maternal Voices Off, Lucy Reynolds
24. Listening In: Laura Mulvey, Sound, and Time Shifts, Claire Holdsworth
25. Thinking through Radical Juxtaposition: Mulvey and Wollen's Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983), Valeria Villegas Lindvall
26. A New Stillness: Explorations into Digital Cinema with Laura Mulvey and Abbas Kiarostami, Aparna Sharma
27. A Story of the Mind's Eye: Laura Mulvey's Curiosity and the Feminist Pleasures of Deciphering, Kimberly Lamm

Product details

Published Mar 04 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 424
ISBN 9781839026638
Imprint British Film Institute
Illustrations 30 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Kimberly Lamm

Kimberly Lamm is Associate Professor of Gender, Se…

Anthology Editor

Anna Backman Rogers

Anna Backman Rogers is Professor of Aesthetics, Cu…

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