<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b>New podcast:</b></span> <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/laura-mulvey/capsula">Laura Mulvey</a> contextualises, updates, and elucidates on the far-reaching
impact of her key text "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", where
she coined the notion of the “male gaze” in classic Hollywood cinema and
addressed the power asymmetry in representation and assigned gender
roles, thus emphasising the patriarchal ideological agenda of the
American film industry. At the same time, she opens up the debate with
the notions of the “queer gaze” and the “universal whiteness” of
Hollywood. Mulvey also defends orality as a form of "history from
below", citing the example of “compilation films” (films that use
archival footage re-written with new narrative) as a space for a new
feminist film practice.<br><br>Link:<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/laura-mulvey/capsula"> http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/laura-mulvey/capsula</a><br><br><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Deeply involved in second wave feminism, in 1975 Laura Mulvey published
the essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema</span>”, widely considered a
seminal feminist film theory text. Conceived as a manifesto – as Mulvey
explains in this conversation – her provocative essay applied
psychoanalytic theory to the imaginary produced by the cinematic
apparatus of classical Hollywood cinema from the thirties to the
sixties, in which the man is the bearer of the look, and the woman is
the image. Mulvey advocated a political reading of the psychoanalytic
ideas and concepts (such as voyeurism, scopophilia, fetishism, fear of
castration...), transferring the binarisms proposed by Freud to
classical film narrative. In the text, Mulvey also coined the notion of
the<span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"> “male gaze</span>” to refer to the power asymmetry in representation and
assigned gender roles, thus emphasising the patriarchal ideological
agenda of the American film industry.<br></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>Laura Mulvey engages in
film practice from all possible angles: as filmmaker, screenwriter,
essayist, critic, academic, and teacher. Through her films – at first
with Peter Wollen, later on her own –, her involvement with the British
Film Institute, and her academic work at Birkbeck College, University of
London, Mulvey has explored critical approaches to film theory and its
intersection with her interests in the semiotics of the image, left-wing
and feminist theory, and the possibilities of disrupting linearity and
temporality. <br></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><a href="https://mail.google.com/"><span id="gmail-goog_564678749"></span>In this podcast, Laura Mulvey<span id="gmail-goog_564678750"></span></a> contextualises,
updates, and elucidates on the far-reaching impact of this key text,
which she revised in later essays such as “Death 24 x a Second.
Stillness and the moving image”. At the same time, she opens up the
debate with the notions of the “queer gaze” and the “universal
whiteness” of Hollywood. Mulvey also defends orality as a form of
"history from below", citing the example of “compilation films” (films
that use archival footage re-written with new narrative) as a space for a
new feminist film practice.<br><br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">ENJOY!<br></span></font><br></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+if you liked this podcast, you may be also interested in our conversation with feminist activist and<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lizzie-borden-main/capsula"> cult filmaker Lizzie Borden</a><br></span></div>