Laura Mulvey

Biography

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker born on August 15, 1941. She is currently Honorary Professor of Film at the University of St. Andrews and Emerita Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her influential essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1973) shaped film theory, while her avant-garde filmmaking in the 1970s and 1980s also garnered recognition.