Laura Mulvey

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Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmershe College, the London College of Printing, the University of East Anglia, and the British Film Institute. Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. Mulvey also was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s.

Most Popular Laura Mulvey Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Open Door: The Other Cinema Trailer (1977)

12 December 1977

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit.

The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin Trailer (1984)

02 April 1984

A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.

The Illusionists Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo.

Disgraced Monuments Trailer (1994)

06 June 1994

Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the fate of Soviet-era monuments during successive political regimes, from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of communism.

Angel in the House Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse and her essay Professions for Women, both read by feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey.

I Learned an Awful Lot in Little Rock Trailer (2024)

16 April 2024

Retiring [in]Transition founding co-editor Catherine Grant reflects on her curation of Laura Mulvey’s remix of a sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) in the opening editorial of our journal’s inaugural issue in 2014.

23rd August 2008 Trailer (2013)

07 November 2013

23 August 2008 consists of two shots. A brief opening shot, intercut with inter-titles, of the famous Al-Mutanabbi Street book market in Baghdad is followed by an unbroken eighteen-minute monologue, shot from a single, still camera position and simply recording the speaker’s words without interruption.

The Mark of Lilith Trailer (1986)

09 October 1986

A white bisexual female vampire, trapped in a relationship with a misogynistic male vampire, encounters a worldly black lesbian who helps her achieve enlightenment.

Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Trailer (2022)

21 October 2022

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

The Amazed Spectator Trailer (2016)

29 January 2016

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre?

Films to Die For Trailer (2025)

23 October 2025

The Bad Sister Trailer (1983)

05 February 1983

Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death.

Riddles of the Sphinx Trailer (1977)

02 September 1977

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

Crystal Gazing Trailer (1982)

15 September 1982

Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road Trailer (2024)

05 October 2024

An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has left her mark on cultural memory and on the creations of other artists.

The Eye of the Beholder Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him.

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.

Amy! Trailer (1980)

07 November 1980

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s experimental documentary combines newsreel footage of the aviator’s arrival, dramatic recreations of events from her life and contemporary discussions by feminist groups on the subject of heroism in this most unconventional biopic.