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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

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Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

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Laura Mulvey

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Born: August 15, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Known for:
  1. Visual and Other Pleasures (1989)
  2. Fetishism and Curiosity (1996)
  3. Citizen Kane (1992)
  4. Invention (2014)

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