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
How to Become a Mechanical Monster: Liberation from Tradition in “Poor Things”
By Yanis Iqbal What is a human being? Poor Things reveals the political stakes of this question by interrogating the… Read more How to Become a Mechanical Monster: Liberation from Tradition in “Poor Things”
Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education
By Olive Demar Malcolm Harris ends his far-reaching book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, with… Read more Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education
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