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Todd Haynes
Director

Todd Haynes

Country USA
Born January 2, 1961

Safe was a real kind of playing with, and almost an enacting of, some of the very core propositions of what was happening in feminism and feminist film theory in the early 1980s. The role of the gaze, and the female spectator, and identification were just sort of alive in that film.

On Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Screen , Vol.16, No.3, Autumn  ·  Film Quarterly, 'Todd Haynes in Conversation with Laura Mulvey'