Brainwashed: How the male gaze in cinema has kept women boxed in
Nina Menkes on her startling new doc, which shows how women are framed, lit and shot in films to reinforce Hollywood’s male dominance
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Nina Menkes on her startling new doc, which shows how women are framed, lit and shot in films to reinforce Hollywood’s male dominance
The women at the heart of the feminist director’s potent, oneiric films are all refuseniks, turning their backs on the roles assigned by a capitalist patriarchy.
Nina Menkes’s new documentary ‘Brainwashed’ takes on the sacred cows of Hollywood and shows how they contribute to a culture of objectification
Sundance Film Festival 2022 documentary 'Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power' dissects the objectification of women in cinema.
We’re thrilled to be celebrating Black History Month on the Criterion Channel with a lineup that salutes African American filmmaking pioneers like Gordon Parks and Madeline Anderson, spotlights the brilliant career of actor and activist Ruby Dee, presents newly restored works by William Greaves and Bill Duke, and offers introductions to contemporary Black directors like Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Akosua Adoma Owusu. That’s just the beginning—we’ve also got Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, a new installment of Adventures in Moviegoing with Wyatt Cenac, and much more—check out the full ca...