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“By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.”

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Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey, born on August 15, 1941, is a prominent British film theorist. Her work has had a profound impact on the field of film studies, particularly her seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' which was published in 1975 and marked a significant milestone in feminist film theory. more

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