Laura Mulvey

Biography

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.

Known For

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Riddles of the Sphinx

The Eye of the Beholder

The Amazed Spectator

Home Movies 1971-81

Films to Die For

Angel in the House

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road

All Movies (11)

• Films to Die For2025 · as Self - Interviewee
• Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road2024 · as Self
• Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power2022 · as Self
• The Amazed Spectator2016 · as Herself
• The Illusionists2015 · as Herself
• The Eye of the Beholder2005 · as Self
• Home Movies 1971-811985
• The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin1984 · as Herself
• Angel in the House1978 · as Extracts of Virginia Woolf
• Open Door: The Other Cinema1977
• Riddles of the Sphinx1977 · as Herself / Voice Off