I've just received a paper from a student that I suspect may be plagiarized. Is anyone familiar with a published essay applying Mulvey's insights in "Visual Pleasure" to Peckinpah's Straw Dogs? The paper--entitled "It is a Dog Eat Dog World: Women's Passivity in Straw Dogs"--begins as follows, and I quote: This paper is an examination of Laura Mulvey's feminist essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." After a brief explanation of her hypothesis, its context, purpose, implications, and ramifications, this author locates many points of continuity and discontinuity between Mulvey's essay and the 1971 Dustin Hoffman feature, Straw Dogs. In the concluding passages, this paper hopes to encapsulate much of Mulvey's address into larger, more philosophical questions: Is the world fully ordered by sexual imbalance? If so, what is the locus of this imbalance? And finally, is it possible for one woman scholar to sit behind a desk and accurately detail the present state of sexual affairs in cinema, circa 1975? No conclusion, however, is obtainable without first outlining Laura Mulvey's paradigm of sexual representation in cinema... Look familiar? I've tried Arts and Humanities Citation Index and other resources, but haven't turned up anything yet. Would appreciate any input before I decide how to proceed with this unfortunate situation. Thank you, Carol Donelan Media Studies Program Carleton College ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu