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Laura Mulvey

Aug 15, 1941 (83 years old) in

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmershe College, the London College of Printing, the University of East Anglia, and the British Film Institute. Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. Mulvey also was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s.

Known For

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Self
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Open Door: The Other Cinema
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Riddles of the Sphinx
Herself / Voice Off
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Home Movies 1971-81
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Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
Self
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The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin
Herself
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The Amazed Spectator
Herself
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The Eye of the Beholder
Self
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Angel in the House
Extracts of Virginia Woolf
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The Illusionists
Herself

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