Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen produced some of the most influential writings in film theory, such as Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Wollen’s The Two Avant-Gardes. In the same period, the pair made six films together. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema is the first book-length study of their work. Moving across Mulvey and Wollen’s writings and films, it situates their work in a detailed account of the shifting conjunctures in which it was generated. Traversing psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and semiotics, it draws on extensive archival research to present an in-depth study of these theorist-filmmakers and the wider field of 1970s British "counter-cinema".
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Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen produced some of the most influential writings in film theory, such as Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Wollen’s The Two Avant-Gardes. In the same period, the pair made six films together. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema is the first book-length study of their work. Moving across Mulvey and Wollen’s writings and films, it situates their work in a detailed account of the shifting conjunctures in which it was generated. Traversing psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and semiotics, it draws on extensive archival research to present an in-depth study of these theorist-filmmakers and the wider field of 1970s British "counter-cinema".
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Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema

by Nicolas Helm-Grovas
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema

by Nicolas Helm-Grovas

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From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen produced some of the most influential writings in film theory, such as Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Wollen’s The Two Avant-Gardes. In the same period, the pair made six films together. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema is the first book-length study of their work. Moving across Mulvey and Wollen’s writings and films, it situates their work in a detailed account of the shifting conjunctures in which it was generated. Traversing psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and semiotics, it draws on extensive archival research to present an in-depth study of these theorist-filmmakers and the wider field of 1970s British "counter-cinema".

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ISBN-13: 9789004752078
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 02/26/2026
Series: Historical Materialism Book , #372
Pages: 468
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Nicolas Helm-Grovas is Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI), Berlin. His writing has appeared in publications such as Oxford Art Journal, Radical Philosophy, Trafic: Almanach de cinéma, New Left Review: Sidecar, and in various edited collections.
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