The crux of Nina Menkes’s documentary feature “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” is that nearly all movies have been made using a specific visual language that teaches society to disempower, disenfranchise, and even abuse women.
You may think that on-screen sexism is a thing of the past, or that it can’t possibly affect our society, in which women can now run companies and win Best Director Oscars.
Menkes is here to tell you, emphatically, that you are wrong. Continue reading ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ Review: How The Male Gaze Actually Harms Women [Sundance] at The Playlist..
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