Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power with Nina Menkes | AD 244
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Discrimination against women in the film industry
- The Weinstein investigation
- 94% of women working in the film industry experiencing sexual assault
- How film objectifies women through the use of camera angles, camera movement, and lighting techniques
- Updating the narrative point of view
- Predatory perspectives within filmmaking
- Portraying love and intimacy in film in more nuanced ways
- Addressing the male gaze
- The need for more government funding for the arts in the U.S.
Artists / People Mentioned:
- Iyabo Kwayana (Cinematographer)
- Jeffrey Martin Zacks (Psychologist)
- Sandra De Castro Buffington (Producer)
- Catherine Hardwicke (Filmmaker)
- Laura Mulvey (Film Theorist)
- Eliza Hittman (Filmmaker)
- Werner Herzog (Director)
- Claire Denis (Director)
Films Mentioned:
- Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Blonde (2022)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
- Titane (2021)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)