Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996) and Death 24x a Second (Reaktion, 2005).
"elegiac . . . a wonderful close analysis. Despite the melancholy
in cinemas encounters with a fleeting past, the prospects opened up
by filmic slowness are, for Mulvey, productive of optimism." -
Times Higher Education Supplement
"Rethinking the fundamentals of film history through modern
audiovisual technology" - Independent on Sunday
"Mulvey . . . continues to provoke new ways of seeing - or
re-seeing - the cinema we think we know." - Film Comment
"Death 24x a Second takes up both the challenge to critical
thinking represented by new technological developments, and the
impulse towards reflection on films past that they have occasioned
. . . a thoughtful book." - New Left Review
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