Laura Mulvey
- Riddles of the Sphinx, 1976/77
Born in Oxford on 15 August 1941.
After studying history at St. Hilda's, Oxford University, she came to prominence in the early 1970s as a film theorist, writing for periodicals such as Spare Rib and Seven Days. Much of her early critical work investigated questions of spectatorial identification and its relationship to the male gaze, and her writings, particularly the 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, helped establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field of study.
Between 1974 and 1982 Mulvey co-wrote and co-directed with her husband, Peter Wollen, six projects: theoretical films, dealing in the discourse of feminist theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis and leftist politics.
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
in distribution:
Riddles of the Sphinx, 1976/77 (with Peter Wollen)
Amy!, 1980 (with Peter Wollen)
