Laura Mulvey

Film theorist Laura Mulvey, who introduced the world to the concept of the “male gaze,” is one of cinema’s most influential thinkers. She is a professor of film and media studies at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and is director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. Her writings on cinema have taken on topics from Citizen Kane to home-video viewing. Of the difficulty of compiling her Criterion Top 10, she says, “I’ve tried to keep to ten, but sometimes the list refused and cheated with asides mentioning other Criterion films.”

Biography via Criterion.