Visual and Other Pleasures

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Visual and Other Pleasures (1989; 2009), and the BFI Film Classic onCitizen Kane (1992; 2012).

• Part 1 Iconoclasm: the spectacle is vulnerable - Miss World 1971; fears, fantasies and the male unconscious or "you don't know what is happening, do you, Mr Jones"; visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Part 2 Melodrama: afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", inspired by King Vidor's "Duel in the Sun" 1946; Fassbinder and Sirk; notes on Sirk and melodrama; images of women, images of sexuality - some films by J.L.Godard; melodrama inside and outside the home. Part 3: Frido Kahlo and Tina Medotti. Part 4 Avant-Garde: film, feminism and the avant-garde; Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin; "Magnificent Obsession"; impending time - Mary Kelly's "Corpus". Part 5: changes.