Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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2022,

1h 47m,

Documentary

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Brainwashed is based on director Nina Menkes's cinematic presentation, Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema, that uses film clips by A-list directors from 1896 to the present, to show how the visual grammar of cinema contributes to conditions that create discriminatory hiring practice, pay inequity and a pervasive environment of sexual harassment in the film industry and beyond.

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Critics Consensus

Although its subject calls for a more incisive treatment, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a worthy primer on the male gaze in cinema.

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Linda Marric

The Jewish Chronicle

May 12, 2023

4/5

Menkes delves deep into Hollywood’s obsession with the female body and its continued sexist representation of young women as objects of desire.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

May 12, 2023

1/5

Political, economic and social factors are all conveniently, outrageously, ignored while movies such as Vertigo, Raging Bull and Blade Runner are blamed for everything from body fascism to rape culture.

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Lillian Crawford

Little White Lies

May 10, 2023

2/5

Menkes’ accusations against other women directors border on misogyny.

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Serena Seghedoni

Loud and Clear Reviews

Jul 23, 2023

3/5

Will be genuinely educational to some viewers – the key word being “some“.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Jun 14, 2023

Concluding with opposing examples, films where the images pass Menkes’ muster, the film’s lasting impression is one of condescension and distrust toward its audience.

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Rosalynn Try-Hane

Liquid Marmalade

May 18, 2023

It will make you see the way women are portrayed on screen differently.

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Brainwashed is based on director Nina Menkes's cinematic presentation, Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema, that uses film clips by A-list directors from 1896 to the present, to show how the visual grammar of cinema contributes to conditions that create discriminatory hiring practice, pay inequity and a pervasive environment of sexual harassment in the film industry and beyond.

Director: Nina Menkes
Producer: Nina Menkes
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Menkesfilm, Eos World Fund
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 6, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.8K
Runtime: 1h 47m

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