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How ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Demands Us to Unlearn the Male Gaze

  • Posted byby Trisha Mendiratta
  • November 11, 2020
  • 3 min. read

In 1975, Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which used a psychoanalytic lens to argue that cinema is written, directed and shot from the perspective of male visual pleasure within a patriarchal framework or as she then coined the ‘male gaze’…

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