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Article: Visual and Other Pleasures.
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- February 5, 1990
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VISUAL AND OTHER PLEASURES
By Laura Mulvey. Indiana University Press.
THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. By Constance Penley. University of Minnesota Press.
In an era when mass media and political life are inseparable, the attention feminists give to film may seem merely modern. But the proliferation of filmmaking that challenges traditional representations of women, and the parallel growth of feminist film scholarship--as well as the passionate debates that have occasionally erupted in both arenas--indicate more than a contemporary sensibility or a demand for inclusion in popular culture. Feminists' questioning of how ...