
Person
Laura Mulvey
Directing · Born 1941-08-15
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
Self

Films to Die For
Self - Interviewee

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
Self

The Mark of Lilith
Thanks

The Bad Sister
Director

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Riddles of the Sphinx
Herself / Voice Off

The Eye of the Beholder
Self

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Writer

Crystal Gazing
Director
Filmography
- 2025Films to Die ForSelf - Interviewee
- 2024Chantal Akerman: Always on the RoadSelf
- 2024I Learned an Awful Lot in Little RockDirector
- 2022Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-PowerSelf
- 2016The Amazed SpectatorHerself
- 2015The IllusionistsHerself
- 201323rd August 2008Director
- 2005The Eye of the BeholderSelf
- 1994Disgraced MonumentsProducer
- 1986The Mark of LilithThanks
- 1985Home Movies 1971-81
- 1984The Cinema of Stephen DwoskinHerself
- 1983The Bad SisterDirector
- 1983Frida Kahlo & Tina ModottiDirector
- 1982Crystal GazingDirector
- 1980Amy!Director
- 1978Angel in the HouseExtracts of Virginia Woolf
- 1977Open Door: The Other Cinema
- 1977Riddles of the SphinxHerself / Voice Off
- 1974Penthesilea: Queen of the AmazonsWriter
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