Author Spotlight

Laura Mulvey

Filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey is the author of the groundbreaking 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." A Collection of her more recent writings has been published by the BFI as Fetishism and Curiosity (1996).

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All That Heaven Allows: An Articulate Screen

Douglas Sirk once said: “This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.” When All That Heaven Allows was released by Univer…

By Laura Mulvey

Written on the Wind

Pent-up, unfulfilled sexuality spills onto the screen in Douglas Sirk’s sumptuous melodrama.

By Laura Mulvey

Peeping Tom

Michael Powell’s controversial late film makes the cinema spectator’s own voyeurism shockingly obvious.

By Laura Mulvey