Laura Mulvey, Film Theorist

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Born in 1941, Laura Mulvey is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in theoretical film criticism. She’s best known for her 1973 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which helped to bring the term "male gaze" into film criticism and eventually into common use. She was also a prominent filmmaker in the 70s and 80s, her most well known work being the avant-garde classic Riddles of the Sphinx. Now 84, she is a professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck University. Laura Mulvey reveals her favourite haunts, memories, pet hates and everything in between with Robert Elms.