Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains her most recent writings, ranging from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet to an extended engagement with the work of the American Indian artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.

作家和电影制片人劳拉-穆尔维（Laura Mulvey）被广泛认为是最具挑战性和最精辟的当代女性主义文化理论家之一。作为20世纪70年代英国电影理论家和独立电影制片人的一员，她以其关于叙事电影的快乐和不快乐的经典作品《视觉和其他快乐》而崭露头角。这本新文集包含了她最近的著作，从对《Xala》、《公民凯恩》和《蓝丝绒》的分析到对美国印第安人艺术家Jimmie Durham和女权主义摄影师Cindy Sherman作品的延伸参与。