Visual Pleasure and narrative
Cinema
Laura Mulvey
,Laura Mulvey
• British feminist film theorist
• Essay – 1973 and published in 1975
• Screen – film theory journal
• Later appeared in her collection – Visual and
other Pleasures
• Essay was influenced by the theories of
Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan
, • Uses the theories of Freud and Lacan
– How patriarchic subconscious of society
structures the film form
– How does it shapes our film watching experience
Cinema
Laura Mulvey
,Laura Mulvey
• British feminist film theorist
• Essay – 1973 and published in 1975
• Screen – film theory journal
• Later appeared in her collection – Visual and
other Pleasures
• Essay was influenced by the theories of
Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan
, • Uses the theories of Freud and Lacan
– How patriarchic subconscious of society
structures the film form
– How does it shapes our film watching experience