The Patriarchal gaze in cinema is reclaimed by Laura Mulvey in ”Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema”. However there are problems associated with her approach for those interested in intersectional feminism. Discuss why Mulvey’s theory is both helpful and challenging for feminists.

Abstract

Feminist film theory has too long equated representation with alienation and error, causing it to become embroiled unnecessarily in questions of epistemology. The struggle should not be over representation, but over representations; what is needed to challenge patriarchy is not an altered epistemological relation to the real, but altered representations.

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