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Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia are pleased to announce "City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory," a film screening and public lecture by Laura Mulvey, on Monday, March 31, 2008 from 5:30-8:30pm. This event has been organized by Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; for more information on the Cinema Studies Colloquium, visit: http://cinemastudies.upenn.edu/
Please note that this event will begin with a special screening of People On Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag, 74 min) at 5:30pm, followed by Laura Mulvey's presentation at 7pm. In this seminal film from 1929, directed by Robert Siodmak with a screenplay by Billy Wilder, we are presented with the portrait of a completely normal summer day in Berlin in 1929: life pulsates, the city vibrates full of energy, there is action all around. As though it were coincidence, the viewer gains insight into the lives of different residents of the metropole, and follows them through their everyday activities, their work, their free time. A young man waiting at a streetcorner for his dark-haired girlfriend. A taxi driver, Erwin, and his wife and their triste domestic existence... (Here for more information)
Laura Mulvey was born in Oxford in 1941. 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. She is professor for Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College in London. Her recent publications include Death 24 × a Second. Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books, 2006). Mulvey was also a prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s. With Peter Wollen she co-wrote and co-directed Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), AMY! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and The Bad Sister. In 1991, she returned to filmmaking with Disgraced Monuments, which she co-directed with Mark Lewis.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Cinema Studies Program in the School of Arts Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Laura Mulvey. "City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory." Slought Foundation Online Content. [31 March 2008;
Accessed 14 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11399/>.
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