Laura Mulvey Series

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist renowned for her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." This influential work, drawing on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, pioneered the intersection of film theory, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Mulvey's analysis explores how the cinematic medium constructs visual pleasure and narrative structures, often revealing their entanglement with patriarchal systems. Her theoretical framework fundamentally shifted film criticism and media studies, particularly through a feminist lens.