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Laura Mulvey  

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  • Laura Mulvey (1941–) is a feminist psychoanalytic film theorist and avant-garde filmmaker. She is most widely known in her field for her 1975 article in the film theory journal Screen called “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” She is famous for taking film theory in a new direction toward Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and incorporating feminist theory into psychoanalytic film criticism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Mulvey, Laura]

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