Even though it’s been 47 years since the publication of the essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, the author’s conclusions are still relevant. Back then American theorist Laura Mulvey parted the waters of film theory in a revolutionary way when she adopted an uncompromising approach to reveal the invisible mechanisms of classical Hollywood cinema which contributed to gender inequality. Independent director Nina Menkes builds on her legacy and, using nearly two hundred film clips, she exposes the methods that ascribe different positions and laws to men and women in the film universe. The result is an entertaining introductory course in critical film theory and film practice, after whose completion you’ll never look at familiar films in the same way again.