Director Nina Menkes in "Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power." (Sundance Institute) Independent filmmaker Nina Menkes can hardly believe that her new documentary “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” about the ...

Nothing less than, well, just about everything cinematic is on the table in Nina Menkes’ eye-opening, if occasionally half-baked documentary “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power”; look no further than its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early in “Brainwashed,” filmmaker and cinema studies professor Nina Menkes quotes author James Baldwin when she says, “Nothing can ...

The film, which analyzes the way that the "male gaze" has permeated acclaimed films throughout cinema history and into the present day, will premiere theatrically and then stream on Kanopy. By Katie ...

Julie Dash, Rosanna Arquette, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, and Eliza Hittman appear in the documentary. Documentarian Nina Menkes is turning her camera on cinema ...

Featuring interviews with filmmakers like Joey Soloway, Julie Dash, Catherine Hardwicke and others, director Nina Menkes argues that the “visual language” of filmmaking — even from women helmers — can ...

The film builds on Menkes' "cinematic experience" lecture to unearth some uncomfortable truths, even if many of them feel half-baked. Nothing less than, well, just about everything cinematic is on the ...