A woman appears on camera, looking strategically desirable, clothed or nude. Kim Novak in “Vertigo”; Phoebe Cates in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”; the list is as long as film history itself. If ...

Featuring interviews with filmmakers like Joey Soloway, Julie Dash, Catherine Hardwicke and others, director Nina Menkes argues that the “visual language” of filmmaking — even from women helmers — can ...

Twenty years ago, filmmaker Nina Menkes began to deliver a lecture as a member of the film faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, exploring a hypothesis she had long held instinctively but ...