Visual Pleasure at 40 Laura Mulvey in discussion Extract BFI

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This video provides a closer look at the psychoanalytic underpinning's of Laura Mulvey's essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, a major work in film studies best known for the concept of the male gaze. The video looks closely at the second paragraph of the essay, which summarizes a number of major principles from the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. In particular, the video examines how Lacan specifically informs Mulvey's arguments. • Topics discussed include castration anxiety; the phallus (especially the distinction between Freud's definition and Lacan's definition); the imaginary, symbolic, and real (Lacan); and the function of the term signifier in Mulvey and Lacan. • For the full series on Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and the male gaze, see below: • Part 1: • Introduction to Laura Mulvey's Visua... • Part 2: • Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrati... • Part 3: • Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and N... • Part 4: • Laura Mulvey and the Female Gaze • Part 5: • Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrati...

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