Laura Mulvey

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373MLM

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9/S

Tutor:

Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Synopsis:

Lecturers: Laura Mulvey, Pavla Jonssonová

Date and location: Friday 19. 10. 2007, at 10-17h in room no. 2, FAMU, in English

Course requirements: Credit/2 - for 100% active participation and a text approx. 2-4 standard pages in length (selection of themes: an analysis of the film „Riddle of the Sphynx“ or an essay on the theme „The Chances of a Women's Film Revolution; Could the Situation Have Been Different Had Filmmakers in the Soviet Block Joined the Revolution?“, submitted by email to: alice.ruzickova@famu.cz do 11. 1. 2008)

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Laura Mulvey: Looking at the Past from Present / Women´s Revolution in Film and Film Theory

FAMU, Classroom 1 - Friday, 19th October 2007

British feminist film theorist, currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Worked at the British Film Institute for many years. Mulvey is best known for her essay, „Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema“, written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. It later appeared in a collection of her essays entitled Visual and Other Pleasures, and numerous other anthologies. Her article was one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film theory towards a psychoanalytic framework, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Mulvey's most recent book is titled Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006).

Mulvey was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s. With Peter Wollen, her husband, she co-wrote and co-directed Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Riddles of the Sphinx (1977 - perhaps their most influential film), AMY! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and The Bad Sister. In 1991, she returned to filmmaking with Disgraced Monuments, which she co-directed with Mark Lewis. (more see Wikipedia)

Program:

10:00-11:30 Lecture „Looking at the Past from the Present: Thoughts on Film Theory in a New Technological Age“

11:30-13:00 Film screening Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)

15:00-17:00 Panel: Women?s Revolution in Film and Film Theory. Post-reflection from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Meeting of women film-makers and theorists on the consequences of the Cold War in the area of women?s film.

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presented in English

Schedule for winter semester 2007/2008:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
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Tue
Fri
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Fri

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