EL PAIS: ‘Sight & Sound’ poll rekindles debate about the greatest films of all time

A few weeks ago, filmmaker Nina Menkes released Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a documentary that dissects “male gaze,” a term coined by Laura Mulvey in 1975, the same year that Jeanne Dielman premiered. Mulvey is a film theorist who argues that within film, males are the active viewer and females become passive subjects. In a special issue of Sight & Sound, Mulvey wrote an extensive defense of Jeanne Dielman, arguing that besides being an important film in the tradition of experimental and avant-garde cinema, it is also a clear reflection of the new power of the feminist movement that deserves to be celebrated.

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