Tag: Jill Dolan

• March 10, 2017

  Feminist Theatre: What Does it Do and How Does it Do it?

  Originally published on HowlRound on September 14, 2016 It’s a fascinating time to be a feminist in the theatre. Thanks to The Kilroys, The Count, and women like Sumru Erkut and Ineke Ceder, we’ve made incredible progress in raising awareness of the lack of equity for women in our field. Actual change has been slower…
• December 3, 2013

  What Really Makes a Film Feminist?

    Originally published by The Atlantic Last week, Swedish movie theaters created a media foofaraw when they announced that they would begin providing a rating based on the Bechdel test for the films they screen. The test, created by comic artist Alison Bechdel in 1985, asks whether a film has at least two female characters…
• October 6, 2012

  A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part One: Daddy Knows Best

  Cross posted at Ms. Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. … John Carpenter My love of horror movies is a product of both nature and of nurture. My mother loves them. My older brother says I ended up in theaters as a child watching movies that were definitely not…