GEEK GIRL AUTHORITY: (Movie Review) Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Menkes has also taught at both the University of Southern California film school and the California Institute of the Arts, where she developed a presentation for her students to show that the way that movies are designed and shot is gendered. That is, the way women appear in movies as opposed to how men appear is very, very different. And it’s this largely predatory way of looking at women in cinema that directly correlates to job discrimination and pay disparity against women (especially within the film industry), and feeds into a culture that glorifies sexual harassment, abuse and assault.

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