Visual and Other Pleasures
Collected Writings
Published on 1. March 1989
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-333-44528-0 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics. The essays also tell, implicitly, a personal story - of someone gradually learning to express themselves in writing through feminism and becoming visibly more articulate over the course of time. Central to the collection is Mulvey's famous polemic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Mulvey has directed six films with Peter Wollen and is a major British cultural theorist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
509 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-44528-0 (9780333445280)
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Content
Part 1 Iconoclasm: the spectacle is vulnerable - Miss World 1971; fears, fantasies and the male unconscious or "you don't know what is happening, do you, Mr Jones"; visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Part 2 Melodrama: afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", inspired by King Vidor's "Duel in the Sun" 1946; Fassbinder and Sirk; notes on Sirk and melodrama; images of women, images of sexuality - some films by J.L.Godard; melodrama inside and outside the home. Part 3: Frido Kahlo and Tina Medotti. Part 4 Avant-Garde: film, feminism and the avant-garde; Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin; "Magnificent Obsession"; impending time - Mary Kelly's "Corpus". Part 5: changes.