Fetishism and Curiosity

Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains her most recent writings, ranging from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet to an extended engagement with the work of the American Indian artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.

Laura Mulvey, Director of MA in Cinema and Television Studies, British Film Institute/Birkbeck College, London, is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures and the BFI Film Classic Citizen Kane.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Fetishisms	p. 1
Americanitis: European Intellectuals and Hollywood Melodrama	p. 19
Social Hieroglyphics: Reflections on Two Films by Douglas Sirk	p. 29
Close-ups and Commodities	p. 40
Pandora's Box: Topographies of Curiosity	p. 53
Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-87	p. 65
The Hole and the Zero: Godard's Visions of Femininity	p. 77
From Log Cabin to Xanadu: Psychoanalysis and History in Citizen Kane	p. 97
The Carapace that Failed: Ousmane Sembene's Xala	p. 118
Netherworlds and the Unconscious: Oedipus and Blue Velvet	p. 137
Postscript: Changing Objects, Preserving Time	p. 155
Notes	p. 177
Index	p. 185
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