Laura Mulvey

Biography

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

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

as Self

Riddles of the Sphinx

as Herself / Voice Off

The Amazed Spectator

as Herself

The Illusionists

as Herself

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road

as Self

Home Movies 1971-81

The Eye of the Beholder

as Self

Open Door: The Other Cinema

Angel in the House

as Extracts of Virginia Woolf

The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

as Herself