Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: BRAINWASHED “Fierce and Focused”

Here is what Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian today “ … a fierce and focused polemic reviving the subject of the “male gaze” for the #MeToo era…. Menkes shows us that the way the camera looks at women, and everything else, is not a transparent, value-free business. On the contrary: with men so overwhelmingly in charge, it is an activity of coercion and imposition, determined by gender politics. And sexuality as it appears on screen is not the natural, unmediated free expression of equal pleasure, but deeply embedded in male power relations…Brainwashed’ is a bracing blast of critical rigour.”   Oct 15, 2022