Here’s a splendid 20 min lecture on Mulvey’s argument. The lecturer has an extensive array of podcasts on hundreds of theoretical pieces, including some stuff that we’ve read together, here.

Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”

In this episode, I present Laura Mulvey’s short essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/

And here are some examples (with very little contextualization) from the kinds of classic Hollywood cinema that Mulvey analyzes:

Laura Mulvey-Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema examples

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And here’s a moving short piece on the model and actress Brooke Shields’ reflections on her being rendered as an object for others’ scopophilia in today’s New York Times. It’s not super theoretical but does convey a vivid sense of the human cost of the patriarchal cinematic apparatus that Mulvey analyzes [remember that you can get free digital access via the Library’s site]:

Opinion | Brooke Shields, Social Media and the Public’s Withering Gaze

Some kids raised in the spotlight feel that their formative years were stolen.