MONTREAL/June 12, 2008—
Ms. Mulvey is a celebrated and fearless scholar who has stimulated debate in academe and the art world for more than 30 years. She is widely admired and recognized around the world, including in her home country, where she was named to the British Academy in 2000.
After studying history at St. Hilda's, Oxford University, she came to prominence in the early 1970s as a film theorist, writing for periodicals such as Spare Rib and Seven Days. Much of her early critical work investigated questions of spectatorial identification and its relationship to the male gaze, and her writings, particularly the 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, helped establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field of study.
Between 1974 and 1982 Mulvey co-wrote and co-directed with her husband, Peter Wollen, several projects: theoretical films, dealing in the discourse of feminist theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis and leftist politics.
Ms. Mulvey’s profound influence on the way in which we look at art, film, gender and national perspectives, has been inspirational to many—as have her pioneering cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. She has also had the courage and the rigour to revisit her own ideas critically.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
