Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist.

Cinema, according to Mulvey, affords two forms of pleasure: scopophilia, the erotic, voyeuristic pleasure of subjecting others to a controlling and curious gaze and which is associated with the libido; and the narcissistic pleasure of identification with the male protagonist (or the camera’s point of view)

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