"Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" by Laura Mulvey
Seminal piece of criticism examing the 'male gaze'
of the camera in relation to on-screen female passivity.
"The Glories of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Pleasures" by
Elizabeth Abele
Rexamining of Mulvey's themes, showing how Grant's
films contradict Mulvey's thesis.
Originally from Images; reprinted in The Best American Movie
Writing 1999.
"I Would Toss Myself Aside: Confessions of a Catholic Film Critic"
by Richard Aleva
Aleva discusses why he would have shunned religious
critics as a boy.
Originally from Image: A Journal of the
Arts and Religion; reprinted in The Best American Movie Writing
1999.
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