Another Gaze is a feminist film journal that examines cinema through the lens of gender, power, and representation. The title references Laura Mulvey’s foundational 1975 essay on the male gaze in cinema — one of the most influential pieces of film theory ever written — and proposes an alternative: a way of looking at film that centres women’s experiences, perspectives, and creative contributions both in front of and behind the camera.
The journal publishes criticism, essays, interviews, and visual work with a rigour that is equal parts academic and accessible. Another Gaze does not merely critique the way women are represented in cinema — it actively builds an alternative canon, championing the filmmakers, performers, and thinkers who have been overlooked by a critical establishment that has historically privileged male perspectives. The writing is dense but never exclusionary, theoretical but never airless, and consistently willing to engage with films that the mainstream press ignores.
What makes the journal essential is not its politics but its taste. Another Gaze does not reduce cinema to a set of ideological positions. It watches closely, thinks carefully, and writes beautifully about films that deserve better than the attention they have received. The feminist framework is not a filter that narrows the field but a lens that reveals what has always been there: the women who directed, performed, edited, designed, and shaped cinema from its earliest days, and who continue to do so in spite of an industry that has spent a century pretending otherwise.
In a film media landscape that is slowly but unevenly reckoning with its own biases, Another Gaze provides something essential: not just another opinion about cinema, but another way of seeing it entirely. The gaze, once redirected, changes everything.