Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
6.2
2022
1 hr 47 min
Drama
, Crime
, Documentary
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 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.
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- Cast：
- Nina Menkes , Rosanna Arquette , Penelope Spheeris , Catherine Hardwicke , Julie Dash , Sheila Frazier , Joey Soloway
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
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