The Female Gaze is Anamorphic: The Rise of the Female Cinematographer
March is Women’s History Month, a time usually reserved for looking back at the pioneers who paved the way. But this March, the most exciting story isn’t in the past—it’s happening on the biggest screen possible.
For fifty years, film students have debated “The Female Gaze” in theory classes. We’ve analyzed it as a narrative device or a political statement about who is being looked at. But this Women’s History Month, the conversation has shifted. The female gaze is no longer just a metaphor for empathy or softness. It is technical. It is heavy. And thanks to the historic Oscar nomination for Sinners, we know it is anamorphic.
