Laura Mulvey
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Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist best known for her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".
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Academic caareer
Laura Mulvey was educated at St Hilda's College Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position.
As a film theorist
Mulvey is best known for her essay,, written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. It later appeared in a collection of her essays entitled Visual and Other Pleasures, and numerous other anthologies. Mulvey's most recent book is titled Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006).
As a film maker
Mulvey was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s. With Peter Wollen, her husband, she co-wrote and co-directed Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Riddles of the Sphinx (1977 - perhaps their most influential film), AMY! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and The Bad Sister. In 1991, she returned to filmmaking with Disgraced Monuments, which she co-directed with Mark Lewis.
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