The Politics of 'Visual Pleasure' 30 Years On: The Work of Laura Mulvey
Saturday 18th June 2005, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2005 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Laura Mulvey’s
seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which polemically
tracked the gendered nature of spectatorship in Hollywood cinema. In this
one-day conference, we acknowledge the importance of Mulvey’s work, which
became extraordinarily influential in that rich interdisciplinary terrain
where ideas from post-structuralism flooded into film, literary and cultural
studies.
The conference will consider issues such as: how has Mulvey’s work
subsequently developed? What is its legacy today and for the future? Do its
insights migrate well to new objects, such as the soundtrack, or African
cinema? Does the psychoanalytic core of Mulvey’s work stand the test of
time, in light of historical and empirical studies of spectatorship?
Among the speakers are Laura Mulvey, Diane Negra, Mandy Merck, Annette Kuhn,
Emma Wilson and Andrew Webber, with Colin MacCabe, Henrietta Moore, Juliet
Mitchell, Mary Jacobus, David Trotter and others as discussants and session
chairs.
The conference will be of interest to scholars and students from film, media
and English studies, from gender, cultural and music studies, to
sociologists and anthropologists of media and culture, as well as to those
engaged with psychoanalytic cultural theory.
For details of how to register, please see
http://www.am-design.co.uk/mulvey.html
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