"In 1975, the avant-garde filmmaker Laura Mulvey published her landmark essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' in the journal Screen. Bringing feminist theory to bear on a new wave of psychoanalytic film criticism, the essay set out to demonstrate how the structure of Hollywood films—camera angles, lighting, editing—foisted a masculine point of view on audiences watching passive, eroticized female objects. Mulvey's notion of the 'male gaze' made waves not just in film studies (four members of Screen's editorial board resigned in protest of it and other psychoanalytic criticism)—but also across much of the humanities."
The Chronicle of Higher Education presents four writers assessing Laura Mulvey's thesis, with a response from Mulvey herself.
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