UK filmmaker, author, theorist and academic Laura Mulvey is to receive a BFI Fellowship award.

Mulvery is best known as the author of seminal essay Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema , for which this year marks its 50th anniversary. The essay has been used by scholars across the globe to introduce students to feminist film theory and the concept of the ‘male gaze’, highlighting classical Hollywood cinema’s propensity to address, embody and shape film spectators as heterosexual and male.

She is honorary professor of film at the University of St Andrews and emerita professor of film and media studies and fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Mulvey’s credits as a filmmaker include 1977 experimental drama Riddles Of The Sphinx, which she wrote, directed and produced with

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