Talk:Laura Mulvey

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[edit] Poorly presented critique

I just rv'ed the following, poorly presented critique of Mulvey:

As with many post-modern academics based in the arts, Mulvey has sought to underpin her work in feminist aesthetic criticism with emprirical scientific verification, mostly from radical pyschology and anthropology. As is equally common, others in the discipline have criticised both her use of such scientific principles, her understanding of them and their expression, in the words of Camille Paglia, social critic and University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, as "pretentious, labyrinthine gibberish".

The author is quoting Paglia from http://www.salon.com/it/col/pagl/1998/10/07pagl.html , but he/she is doing so inaccurately. In the Salon piece, Paglia is attacking "poststructuralist and postmodernist theory" with that phrase, but not exactly from the perspective of this author. Also, the author's critique has numerous spelling/grammatical problems and was incorrectly placed in the "References" section of the article. A critique of poststructuralist film theory and Mulvey's place in it would be appropriate for this article, but it needs to be better presented than this edit was. --Jeremy Butler 12:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Berger influence?

In 1972 critic, author, and painter John Berger published a collection of essays called "Ways of Seeing" where he notes that the whole tradition of the female nude in Western art is the story of “men look[ing and] women watch[ing] themselves being looked at”. Is there any evidence he influenced Mulvey?Malick78 13:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)