Fetishism and Curiosity
Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains her most recent writings, ranging from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet to an extended engagement...
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Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains her most recent writings, ranging from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet to an extended engagement with the work of the American Indian artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Fetishisms1Ch. 1Americanitis: European Intellectuals and Hollywood Melodrama19Ch. 2Social Hieroglyphics: Reflections on Two Films by Douglas Sirk29Ch. 3Close-ups and Commodities40Ch. 4Pandora's Box: Topographies of Curiosity53Ch. 5Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-8765Ch. 6The Hole and the Zero: Godard's Visions of Femininity77Ch. 7From Log Cabin to Xanadu: Psychoanalysis and History in Citizen Kane97Ch. 8The Carapace that Failed: Ousmane Sembene's Xala118Ch. 9Netherworlds and the Unconscious: Oedipus and Blue Velvet137Postscript: Changing Objects, Preserving Time155Notes177Index185
