Bow Down: Laura Mulvey on Chantal Akerman
The renowned film theorist Laura Mulvey – who, in the 1975 article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ coined the term ‘the male gaze’ – discusses the life and work of the influential avant-garde feminist filmmaker and artist, Chantal Akerman, who died in 2015. According to Mulvey, Chantal, who was enormously prolific, was one of the most influential filmmakers in history, the creator of ‘women’s cinema’ who ‘turned filmmaking upside down’.
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