Femiinist+and+Gender+Theory

=Readings:=

__Background__

 * http://tonymckibbin.com/course-notes/gender-theory**

__**The Male Gaze**__
British feminist film theorist, Laura 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. Her article is 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.
 * Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema **