LAURA MULVEY







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Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at Oxford and is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College, London She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position.

Laura Mulvey's theory is relevant to me because her theory is on the 'MALE GAZE' and could be useful as my independent study focuses on representation of woman and how they are seen as sex objects to entertain and pleasure men.

Mulvey's best known for her essay on "visual pleasures and narrative cinema". She argues that in Hollywood cinema males are there for the figure of the woman on screen as the object of desire. Viewers are made to identify with the protagonist of the film, who tends to be male. Meanwhile, female characters are, according to Mulvey, coded "to-be-looked-at-ness"

She also mentions the active/male and passive/female leading to the 'male gaze'. In my chosen text Charlie's Angels 2 they are shown to entertain men using their bodies such as when they pole dance to distract the villain.