By Cameron Metcalfe During a press interview promoting The Witch (2015), director Robert Eggers was asked about audiences’ assumptions that… Read more ‘People don’t know what the witch of the 17th Century is at all’: The Witch and Vinegar Tom
Meaningless Macabre: White Supremacy, America, and the Chainsaw
By Flora Arnold At its 50th anniversary, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains more than ever a perfectly pessimistic parable for… Read more Meaningless Macabre: White Supremacy, America, and the Chainsaw
Staying With the Storm: Weathering With You and the Oceanic
By Vienna D’Angelo Weathering With You’s uncanny resemblance to my dreams drew me in right from the start. The second… Read more Staying With the Storm: Weathering With You and the Oceanic
A Nomos of the Stateless
By Noah Brehmer The Palestinian resistance will forever usurp the colonizers’ image of an exiled, maimed, brutalized, undead Palestinian people.… Read more A Nomos of the Stateless
What Ever Happened to Monstro Elisasue?: In defense of Psycho-biddies in The Substance and beyond.
By Johanna Isaacson I recently completed a book about the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in which… Read more What Ever Happened to Monstro Elisasue?: In defense of Psycho-biddies in The Substance and beyond.
Smile! There’s a Cute Animal On-Screen.
By Tyler Thier This is a manifesto against cute animals. The kind that nameless sponsors of “art” force-feed us within… Read more Smile! There’s a Cute Animal On-Screen.
Sex, Drugs, and Femininity in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
By Payton McCarty-Simas McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Robert Altman’s seminal revisionist Western tragedy (recently re-released on Blu-ray by Criterion),… Read more Sex, Drugs, and Femininity in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Kitchens After Midnight: Gremlins
By Johanna Isaacson In classic feminist films, the kitchen is a place of repetition whose Sisyphean tasks incrementally arouse dread… Read more Kitchens After Midnight: Gremlins
Alleviations
Miranda Mellis What is it that translates pricks of conscience into acts of conscience? What are the affordances that enable… Read more Alleviations
The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels
Jess Flarity **CONTAINS SPOILERS for all the Mad Max films** Like many Mad Max fans, I watched Road Warrior (1981)… Read more The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels
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