Visual and Other Pleasures / Edition 2

Visual and Other Pleasures / Edition 2

by L. Mulvey
ISBN-10:
1403992460
ISBN-13:
9781403992468
Pub. Date:
02/27/2009
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN-10:
1403992460
ISBN-13:
9781403992468
Pub. Date:
02/27/2009
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Visual and Other Pleasures / Edition 2

Visual and Other Pleasures / Edition 2

by L. Mulvey
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403992468
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 02/27/2009
Series: Language, Discourse, Society
Edition description: 2nd ed. 2009
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Acknowledgements Introduction to Second Edition Introduction to First Edition PART I: ICONOCLASM 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 PART II: MELODRAMA 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 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's Corpus 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
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