Visual and Other Pleasures » (2nd Edition)

LAURA MULVEY is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her most recent book is Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Reflections on Stillness in the Moving Image.

This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."

New Introduction: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in the Light of New Technologies (2006)
• Introduction (1989)
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1: ICONOCLASM
• The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World 1970
• Fears, Fantasies and the Male Unconscious, or 'You Don't Know What is Happening, Do You Mr.Jones?'
• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
• PART 2: MELODRAMA
• Afterthoughts on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946)
• Notes on Sirk and Melodrama
• Fassbinder and Sirk
• Images of Women, Images of Sexuality: Some Films by J.L.Godard
• Melodrama Inside and Outside the Home
• PART 3: ON THE MARGINS
• Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
• PART 4: AVANT-GARDE
• Film, Feminism and the Avant-Garde
• Dialogue With Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin
• 'Magnificent Obsession': An Introduction to the Work of Five Photographers
• Impending Time: Mary Kelly's Corpus
• PART 5: BOUNDARIES
• Changes: Thoughts on Myth, Narrative and Historical Experience
• The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx
• Afterthoughts: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in the Light of Historical Context