Category: Feminism
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Biting Back at Abusers: Reclaiming Women’s Agency in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Written by Audrey Anne Le Nabec for Justine McLellan’s Cinema and Culture course. Long-existent before the creation of the film, the socio-cultural phenomenon of the repression of women’s autonomy and freedom concerning sexual violence has been present across cultures and nations. It is with the rise of feminist movements like ‘women, life, freedom’ (Iran) and…
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Seen and Not Seen: 1960s and 1970s American Gender Politics
Created by Vassilia Kiakas and Maya Gregoire for Magdalena Olzanowski’s History of Film Production Techniques class Vassilia Kiakas and Maya Gregoire discuss 1960s and 1970s queer representation and gender politics through the lens of horror.
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Stepford Wives and the Rebranding of Feminism
Delia Markus explores the difference between the two adaptations of The Stepford Wives and analyzes how feminist theory may be applied to each of them.
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Fembot Fantasy
By Victoria Psiharis, Emma Simetic, Adelina Petkova and Sofia Timotheatos, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course Fembot Fantasy analyzes the science-fiction genre’s fetishistic portrayal of fembots, robots adorning feminine traits, through the lense of technoscopophilia.
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Taylor Swift and the Double Standard of Modern Media
By Emilia Martinez-Zalce Darroch, written for Justine McLellan’s Explorations in Cinema and Communication “I would be complex / I would be cool / They’d say I played the field before I found someone to commit to / And that would be okay for me to do / Every conquest I had made would make me…
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