Closing the Gap Between Self and Self: A Conversation with Nina Menkes — SENSES OF CINEMA

Aug 7

“As Laura Mulvey pointed out long ago, and sadly, it’s still relevant, women are systematically objectified in cinema. My new doc Brainwashed builds on the insights of Mulvey and other key feminist theorists, examining the way that shot design is gendered and showing how this visual language of cinema connects to both severe employment discrimination against women-especially in the film industry-as well as to the epidemic of sexual harassment and abuse that was recently exposed through the #metoo movement.”

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Jen Nuzzo

Closing the Gap Between Self and Self: A Conversation with Nina Menkes — SENSES OF CINEMA

THE MODERN TIMES REVIEW: The mechanisms of exploitation of women as sexual objects in Hollywood films, exposed

SENSES OF CINEMA: Menkes’s first foray into the criticism of mainstream cinema and the misrepresentation of women it fosters