In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo ...

Does it feel like entertainment, advertising and social media are switching back to a straight man’s fantasy? The trend could impact everyone negatively — including men, experts say.

You’ve no doubt heard of the “male gaze”—it has, after all, been the backbone of art and entertainment since man first put pen or paint to paper. Conversation around the concept has had a particular ...

Julie Dash, Rosanna Arquette, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, and Eliza Hittman appear in the documentary. Documentarian Nina Menkes is turning her camera on cinema ...

I was probably in college when I first learned that movies could commandeer my desires in a manner hostile to my flourishing as a woman. My favorite film at the time was “Sin City,” a 2005 neo-noir ...