A place to think deeply about movies
In this excerpt from her essay on Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, which features in our feminist horror ebook Beyond Empowertainment, Joseph Earp discusses …
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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 …
[Read more...] about Claire Foy in Unsane (Great horror performances #2)
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 …
[Read more...] about Unsane gives form to society’s systemic sexism
In Raw and We Are What We Are, cannibalism is used as a metaphor to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro. …
[Read more...] about ‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy
Thelma has been compared to Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but Trier gives his female lead agency whereas Carrie was simply a victim. This is an excerpt from our …
[Read more...] about Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie
In Personal Shopper, the boundary between Maureen and others is both because of technology and merely exacerbated by it. This is an excerpt from our book, …
[Read more...] about Personal Shopper conflates depression with technological obsession
