Talk:Laura Mulvey

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 22:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Poorly presented critique
I just rv'ed the following, poorly presented critique of Mulvey:
 * As with many post-modern academics based in the arts, Mulvey has sought to underpin her work in feminist aesthetic criticism with emprirical scientific verification, mostly from radical pyschology and anthropology. As is equally common, others in the discipline have criticised both her use of such scientific principles, her understanding of them and their expression, in the words of Camille Paglia, social critic and University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, as "pretentious, labyrinthine gibberish".

The author is quoting Paglia from http://www.salon.com/it/col/pagl/1998/10/07pagl.html, but he/she is doing so inaccurately. In the Salon piece, Paglia is attacking "poststructuralist and postmodernist theory" with that phrase, but not exactly from the perspective of this author. Also, the author's critique has numerous spelling/grammatical problems and was incorrectly placed in the "References" section of the article. A critique of poststructuralist film theory and Mulvey's place in it would be appropriate for this article, but it needs to be better presented than this edit was. --Jeremy Butler 12:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

John Berger influence?
In 1972 critic, author, and painter John Berger published a collection of essays called "Ways of Seeing" where he notes that the whole tradition of the female nude in Western art is the story of “men look[ing and] women watch[ing] themselves being looked at”. Is there any evidence he influenced Mulvey?Malick78 13:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

The 39 steps of section "film theory"
Here's the beginning of every paragraph in this section:


 * Mulvey is best known for her essay ...
 * Mulvey states that she intends ...
 * Mulvey argues that the only way ...
 * "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was the subject of ...
 * Feminist critic Gaylyn Studlar wrote extensively ...
 * Mulvey later wrote that her article was meant to be ...
 * Mulvey's most recent book is titled Death ... (paragraph contains over 400 words)
 * Mulvey believes that avant-garde film "poses certain questions which consciously confront ...

On the last provides anything close to a secure hand rail in the first 39 steps. &mdash; MaxEnt 22:06, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Who is to say what Mulvey's most influential films are?
In the section 'As a filmmaker', it is noted that perhaps Mulvey's most influential film was Riddles of the Sphinx. I take issue with this for a couple of reasons. First, just because the film is most watched or has a Wikipedia page does not mean that it was the most influential, the definition of influential varies heavily from person to person. It is impossible or nearly impossible to quantity. Second, there are no citations stating the Riddles of the Sphinx was the most consumed film. Should this passage not say that Riddles of the Sphinx was the most viewed (or popular) film, instead of a qualitative guess at its influence?Mcorningmyers (talk) 05:09, 1 February 2018 (UTC)