Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure
Published online on November 04, 2025
Abstract
Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ (1975) is the most widely cited, heavily anthologized and endlessly summarized essay in Film Studies. It is a foundational text that frames mainstream narrative cinema as a type of discourse that ...
Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ (1975) is the most widely cited, heavily anthologized and endlessly summarized essay in Film Studies. It is a foundational text that frames mainstream narrative cinema as a type of discourse that ...