Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) - Laura Mulvey Originally Published -

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This paper intends to use psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him. It takes as starting point the way film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle. It is helpful to understand what the cinema has been, how its magic has worked in the past, while attempting a theory and a practice which will challenge this cinema of the past. Psychoanalytic theory is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form.

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Mulvey, L. (1975). Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) - Laura Mulvey Originally Published -. Screen, 16(3), 6–18.

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