Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure

The impact of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” continues to be widely felt, well beyond the parameters of film studies. Debates around its premises and methods continue; and it remains a fundament of film theory. Since it appeared in 1975,¹ the only essay that has come to rival...

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1. Verfasser:	Scott Bukatman
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied philosophy Arts Behavioral sciences Cognitive psychology Communications Critical theory Cultural anthropology Cultural studies Emotion Emotional states Feminist film theory Film genres Film studies Film theory Historical methodology Historiography History Interactionism Literary studies Literature Movies Narrative films Narrative history Narrative modes Narratives Narratology Philosophy Pleasure Psychology Situationism Social criticism Social philosophy Social sciences Spectacle
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Zusammenfassung:	The impact of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” continues to be widely felt, well beyond the parameters of film studies. Debates around its premises and methods continue; and it remains a fundament of film theory. Since it appeared in 1975,¹ the only essay that has come to rival it in the breadth and depth of its influence, has been Tom Gunning’s “The Cinema of Attraction(s): Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde.”² The rise to prominence of Gunning’s essay mirrored (and helped instigate) the shift in film studies away from a theoretical model grounded in the analysis of