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

Menkes circles around the disappointment, the sense of exclusion and of being denied as a human being, the pain and the anger experienced by a feminist filmmaker like her, and many women who share her emotions, when exposed to the mainstream language of cinema and the sexist way the film industry is ran. She points at the thorny question and the contradiction that many of us have experienced: how can you love a film when you disagree with its sexual politics? "From the rage, we found hope", said Cecily Rhett, Menkes’s editor and close collaborator."

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