From: Journal of Popular Film and Television | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Quicke, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 1997 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Laura Mulvey's poststructuralist feminism with its anti-essentialist assumptions first came to prominence in 1975 with her celebrated paper "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Her new book Fetishism and Curiosity is a collection that traces her "intellectual development with successive waves of British film theory." The basic thesis, as illustrated by this new collection of papers, is little changed: she believes that Freud's twin mechanisms of voyeurism and fetishism suggest tha...