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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

What is normalized as beautyis really seen specifically and dominantlythrough a male gaze

What is normalized as beauty
is really seen specifically and dominantly
through a male gaze

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What is normalized as beauty is really seen specifically
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and dominantly through a male gaze.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:43
Uploaded
May 04, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Menkesfilm

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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 ...
I think that really changes how - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:07
I think that really changes how
It's the aesthetic that is normalized, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
It's the aesthetic that is normalized,
Here in "super fly" - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:11
Here in "super fly"
We have the man in the subject position. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
We have the man in the subject position.
Although, the two heads are photographed quite the same, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:23
Although, the two heads are photographed quite the same,
One of my students when she saw this clip, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:17
One of my students when she saw this clip,
Watching this "superfly" bathtub scene, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:08
Watching this "superfly" bathtub scene,
That, you know, they are given a script - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:21
That, you know, they are given a script
All of these techniques that we've just reviewed - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:09
All of these techniques that we've just reviewed
And very often in ways that seemed strangely irrelevant - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:08
And very often in ways that seemed strangely irrelevant
In an ideal world, we would be able to see a huge amount, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:10
In an ideal world, we would be able to see a huge amount,
You know, so if you are a heterosexual male, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:09
You know, so if you are a heterosexual male,
I'm just pointing out the fact that a whole lot - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:12
I'm just pointing out the fact that a whole lot
And since 96% of the films through time - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:21
And since 96% of the films through time
For women, because you're looking at those films, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:11
For women, because you're looking at those films,
But she thinks, some part of me, which is me, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:08
But she thinks, some part of me, which is me,
So, in that case, she loses her own self, - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:07
So, in that case, she loses her own self,
All of her, you know, attention or energy - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:10
All of her, you know, attention or energy
But when she sits down, she feels empty. - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:05
But when she sits down, she feels empty.
So here we have very clearly - Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 00:21
So here we have very clearly