{"title":"Laura Mulvey","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaura Mulvey's work invites readers to explore the intersection of cinema and cultural theory with sharp insight and critical depth. Her writings, including studies on influential films like \u003cem\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the ways visual storytelling shapes and reflects societal narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on film theory and cultural critique, Mulvey challenges conventional perspectives, encouraging a deeper understanding of the moving image as an art form and a cultural force. Her explorations are essential for those interested in \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e and the power of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"death-24x-a-second-by-laura-mulvey-9781861892638","title":"Death 24x a Second","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDeath 24x a Second\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, semiotics, spectatorship, and narrative. New media technologies, such as DVD, have transformed modes of film consumption and thus affected viewers' relationship to the image and to narrative structure. DVDs give viewers control of both image and story, so that films produced to be seen collectively and followed as their linear narratives demand may be found to contain unexpected (even unintended) and multiple structures of pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tension between the still frame and the moving image coincides with the cinema's capacity to capture the appearance of life and preserve it after death. Mulvey proposes that with the arrival of new technologies and new ways of experiencing the cinematic image, film’s hidden stillness comes to the fore, thereby acquiring a new accessibility and visibility. The individual frame, the projected film’s best-kept secret, can now be revealed, by anyone, at the simple touch of a button. Easy access to repetition, slow motion, and the freeze-frame may well shift the spectator’s pleasure to a fetishistic rather than a voyeuristic investment in the cinematic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, there is another, narrative aspect to the stillness\/movement tension that is not specific to the cinema but has been reworked and reinvented within the constraints of mass entertainment storytelling. Mulvey detects, at the present moment, an attraction to endings, and with the threat of 'ending' hanging over the cinema itself, there is an extra awareness of the deathlike properties of narrative closure. Inevitably, such a conjunction shifts the attention of the psychoanalytically influenced critic away from a preoccupation with the erotic, as the propelling force of narrative, towards death. Freud’s concept of the death drive as applied to narrative structure allows a theoretical reassessment of cinematic storytelling which ultimately converges with cinema’s inherent stillness, its own death-like properties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455543099628,"sku":"9781861892638","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/51cTXzGjPML._SL1500.jpg?v=1774781445"},{"product_id":"citizen-kane-by-laura-mulvey-9781844574971","title":"Citizen Kane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/em\u003e's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLaura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique, she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462710083820,"sku":"9781844574971","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781844574971-citizen-kane.gif?v=1775021705"},{"product_id":"afterimages-by-laura-mulvey-9781789141221","title":"Afterimages","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book marks a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies. Its title, \u003cem\u003eAfterimages\u003c\/em\u003e, alludes to the dislocation of time that runs through many of the films and works in this book, and the way we view them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStructured in three main parts, the book begins with a section on the theme of woman as spectacle. Part Two focuses on films drawn from different parts of the world, directed by women and about women, and all adopting radical cinematic strategies. In Part Three, Mulvey considers moving image works made for art galleries and argues that the aesthetics of cinema have persisted into this environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfterimages\u003c\/em\u003e also features an appendix of ten frequently asked questions on her classic feminist essay \u003cem\u003eVisual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,\u003c\/em\u003e in which Mulvey addresses questions of spectatorship crucial to our era of #MeToo. This is an urgent and compelling read for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595504894188,"sku":"9781789141221","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789141221-afterimages.jpg?v=1777898592"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/laura-mulvey.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}