In the penultimate episode of Channel 4’s The Story of Film:An Odyssey, Mark Cousins interviewed New Zealand director Jane Campion.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Campion spoke about the need for women to have a more prominent voice in movies but also added: “one of the betrayals of the female is that they want to see themselves through male eyes”.
This struck me as a slightly different slant on the traditional feminist arguments about the dominance of the voyeuristic ‘male gaze’ and suggests that it is not simply a question of women gaining key roles in the production of TV and cinema but also of using such positions to challenge the patriarchal order.
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