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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

In "lady from Shanghai," we can see so manyof the basic gendered shot design techniques...

In "lady from Shanghai," we can see so many
of the basic gendered shot design techniques that continue to inform
filmmaking today

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In "lady from Shanghai,"
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we can see so many of the basic gendered
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shot design techniques
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that continue to inform filmmaking today.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:24
Uploaded
May 05, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Menkesfilm

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Movie Summary

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 175 movie clips from 1896 ...
Lover, this really concerns you more than anyone else. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:04
Lover, this really concerns you more than anyone else.
J” don't take your arms away j” - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:15
J” don't take your arms away j”
Rita Hayworth, of course, is in a bikini - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:06
Rita Hayworth, of course, is in a bikini
And of course, we have the ever present male subject - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:09
And of course, we have the ever present male subject
Rita Hayworth is floating in a strange dislocated space. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:06
Rita Hayworth is floating in a strange dislocated space.
Maybe we'll call it male fantasy space. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
Maybe we'll call it male fantasy space.
In this clip and in subsequent clips, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:11
In this clip and in subsequent clips,
This is what we're always told, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:06
This is what we're always told,
But to answer that and to respond to that, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:13
But to answer that and to respond to that,
She really means seduced into powerlessness. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
She really means seduced into powerlessness.
So glamor, in my opinion, is a coverup, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:12
So glamor, in my opinion, is a coverup,
A woman's agency is always interrupted - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:09
A woman's agency is always interrupted
Whatever action she's doing it's super important - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:17
Whatever action she's doing it's super important
Naturally, she knew better. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:04
Naturally, she knew better.
So as usual, we have the men in 3D space. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
So as usual, we have the men in 3D space.
We have the men talking to each other about a woman. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
We have the men talking to each other about a woman.
There is one interesting thing though about this scene - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:07
There is one interesting thing though about this scene
And that is the way that audio is handled. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
And that is the way that audio is handled.
When you look at the scene, you notice that, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:08
When you look at the scene, you notice that,
So you think that it makes sense - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:15
So you think that it makes sense