Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

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ID23355366
AuthorsLaura Mulvey (corresponding author)
Year1989
Pages14-26
Publication date1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueVisual and Other Pleasures (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-19798-9_3
OpenAlexW4205263546
ISBN9781349197989
LanguageEN
Citations received188

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 its 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.

Aesthetics · Art · Film theory · Interpretation (philosophy) · Literature · MAGIC (telescope) · Movie theater · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Spectacle · Subject (documents) · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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