Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

2022 · 107 min · ★ 5.9 · Documentary, Drama, Crime

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

Directed by Nina Menkes

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