Category: Film/TV
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Is Wonder Woman Too Muscular For the Silver Screen?
Originally posted at Bitch This is a dark summer for geek girls. Though superhero and comic book-based films are all the rage these days, it’s male crime-fighters who get all the attention: there are no films starring female superheroes on the horizon. Take the whip-smart spy Black Widow, for example. The Avengers member will co-star…
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Where Have you Gone, Sarah Connor?
Originally posted at Ms. and Bitch Flicks. Remember Linda Hamilton (playing Sarah Connor) and her guns in “Terminator 2″? Summer always makes me a bit nostalgic for childhood. I remember fondly the excitement of being out of school, the long days with nothing to do but read and the cool refuge from the hot Texas…
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The New Evil Dead: A New Lesson in Masculinity. And Oh Yeah, Tree Rape.
Cross posted at Ms. SPOILER ALERT: This post contains major spoilers. Also, TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE. I am not really into gore for gore’s sake: When I go to horror movies, I want to be held in suspense and suddenly surprised, not just grossed out. Luckily for Sam Raimi fans, the new version of the 1981…
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Feminist Face-Off: Beautiful Creatures vs. Twilight
It’s hard not to make the comparison: two supernatural teen romances, both adapted from Young Adult novels, both involving a Romeo and Juliet-like attraction between a human and a superhuman. For feminist spectators, the popularity of such genre films warrants an investigation of their depiction of gender roles. So how do the two films stack…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Mythical Mamas
Cross posted at Ms. For horror fans, January is both a blessing and a curse. Christened “Hollywood’s dumping ground,” January is where movies go to die. With everyone’s attention focused on awards season, or so the thinking goes, studios can afford to release films from which they do not expect much profit, many of which…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies Part Three: Worlds Without Patriarchy
Cross posted at Ms. This is the third post in a three-part series on watching horror movies as a feminist spectator. Having covered films which reinforce the necessity of the patriarchy and films which question its value while still punishing challenges to patriarchal norms, let’s look at two movies in which the patriarchy is almost…
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A Feminist Guide to Watching Horror Movies, Part Two: It’s Not Just About Vampires
This piece is Part Two in a three-part series. See here for part one. Since Edward Cullen first graced the pages of a young adult novel in 2005, vampires have been the sexy bad guys du jour. But it’s not just the lingering fear that sex might lead to death that makes these nightmarish manifestations…
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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…
Holly L. Derr 