Visual Pleasure is a theoretical construct in feminist film theory that identifies the psychoanalytically grounded mechanism by which spectators derive libidinal gratification from the stylized visual arrangement of gendered images in cinema, particularly through the interplay of scopophilic desire and the objectification of women within the patriarchal gaze.
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey · Screen · 1975 · 6.9K citations
Window shopping: cinema and the postmodern
Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 608 citations
On “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Sue Thornham · Feminist Media Studies · 2015 · 543 citations · Full text
Humanities, Film Studies, Media Arts +14
Scientific American · 1956 · 283 citations · Full text
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New York University
New York, United States
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6 publications
329 citations
Rice University
Houston, United States
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2 publications
140 citations
Pennsylvania State University
State College, United States
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3 publications
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Abington Memorial Hospital
Horsham, United States
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3 publications
45 citations
Radboud University Nijmegen
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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298 citations
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland
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University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
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CRO · 10 publications · 3.4K citations
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4 publications · 122 citations
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NGC · 2 publications · 79 citations
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