By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
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On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
Bigger & Bigger Lies
By Madeline Lane-McKinley From the outset Big Little Lies had great potential. Premiering in late February of 2017, the series… Read more Bigger & Bigger Lies
Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures
by Ken Ehrlich “Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.” Aimé Cesaire A grainy… Read more Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures
Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
by Alva Gotby Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 film Shoplifters is less about shoplifting and more about what it means to adopt… Read more Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director… Read more Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
by Noah Brehmer | A few years back something like a rave–or what was anyways called one–unfolded under the Baltica-highway in… Read more RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
with binyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author of short stories and essays, an LGBT activist, and a champion of African literary… Read more with binyavanga
We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Feminist Utopianism in Outer-Space
By Kenan Behzat Sharpe The “new Turkey” seems to have no space for women. Last Friday thousands of people gathered… Read more Rock ‘n’ Roll Feminist Utopianism in Outer-Space
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