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Feminist Horror

Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper, Women in Horror Month

Joseph Earp / February 27, 2020

Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper (Great horror performances #4)

Kristen Stewart uses physical tics as pointedly as lines of dialogue. Her artificial, artfully rendered oddness reveals something naturalism could not.

Claire Foy, Unsane, Women in Horror Month

Alex Heeney / February 25, 2020

Claire Foy in Unsane (Great horror performances #2)

In this excerpt from her essay on Claire Foy’s career, which features in our feminist horror ebook Beyond Empowertainment, Alex Heeney discusses the many masks of Claire Foy in Unsane.

Unsane, Steven Soderbergh

Scott Wilson / November 5, 2019

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane gives form to society’s systemic sexism

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane explores systemic sexism by comparing and pairing stalker David Strine with a corrupt medical facility. This is an excerpt from our book, Beyond empowertainment

Raw, We Are What We Are

Rosie McCaffrey / November 5, 2019

‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy in Raw and We Are What We Are

In Raw and We Are What We Are, the cannibalism metaphor is used to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro.

Thelma, Joachim Trier, Eili Harboe

Orla Smith / November 5, 2019

Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie

Thelma has been compared to Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but Trier gives his female lead agency whereas Carrie was simply a victim.

Alex Heeney / November 5, 2019

Personal Shopper conflates depression with technological obsession

In Personal Shopper, the boundary between Maureen and others is both because of technology and merely exacerbated by it.

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