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Riddles of the Sphinx

By (author) Kimberly Lamm

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A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollenâ€™s Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, as she confronts the complex politics of motherhood, domestic labour and work. With a kaleidoscopic array of cinematic techniques and poetic devices, the film charts Louiseâ€™s process as she questions her place within white patriarchal culture and finds her voice within the burgeoning Womenâ€™s Liberation Movement. Reading Riddles as an essay film, Kimberly Lamm explores how it utilises voice, sound and writing to challenge Hollywoodâ€™s dominant images of women and to portray maternal care as a legitimate form of work, rich in aesthetic pleasures and feminist possibilities. She examines the voice of the Sphinx, and, connecting it to feminismâ€™s engagement with psychoanalysis, argues that Mulvey and Wollenâ€™s film works-through long histories of patriarchal viewing practices and creates conditions in which the full range of womenâ€™s voices can be listened to, heard and valued. Lamm explores how Riddles, the second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, drew inspiration from Wollenâ€™s influential work on â€˜counter-cinemaâ€™ and Mulveyâ€™s foundational writing on â€˜the male gazeâ€™.

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