10 Great Films that challenge the male gaze

This article explains the male gaze in media, a concept established in Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay, then demonstrates alternatives.

To coincide with the release of Nina Menkes’s documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, we count down 10 films which defy the male gaze in cinema.

“As a filmmaker, and as a woman, I found myself drowning in a vortex of visual language from which it is very difficult to escape.” These are the first words of Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a new documentary that explores the dominance of the male gaze across more than a century of cinema. 

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by Rachel Pronger