About the Author

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996) and Death 24x a Second (Reaktion, 2005).

Reviews

elegiac . . . a wonderful close analysis. Despite the melancholy in cinemas encounters with a fleeting past, the prospects opened up by filmic slowness are, for Mulvey, productive of optimism. - Times Higher Education Supplement
Rethinking the fundamentals of film history through modern audiovisual technology - Independent on Sunday
Mulvey . . . continues to provoke new ways of seeing - or re-seeing - the cinema we think we know. - Film Comment
Death 24x a Second takes up both the challenge to critical thinking represented by new technological developments, and the impulse towards reflection on films past that they have occasioned . . . a thoughtful book. - New Left Review