Category: Feminist Film Theory
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The Devil in Disguise: Feminism through the Male Gaze in Rosemary’s Baby
Written by Shira Goren for Cheryl Simon’s Film Theory course. TW: mention of r*pe. Rosemary’s Baby, directed by Roman Polanski in 1968, is a psychological horror movie that discusses themes such as paranoia, satanism, and women’s liberation. It deals with the story of a young woman named Rosemary who moves to New York with her…
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Poor Things: A Feminist Analysis
Video Essay submitted in Jesse Hunter’s Film Theory course. Maya Mielenz analyzes the film “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, through a feminist lens.
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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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Women’s Self-Determination
A comparative analysis of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women By Kara Chevry, written for Louise Slater’s Women and Anger course For four years, several women and girls within a remote Mennonite colony have woken up in pain and agony, their skin marked with bruises and cuts. The colony’s religious leaders laid…
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The Rise of Feminist Horror
Written by Lou Tremblay, written for Justine McLellan’s Explorations in Cinema and Communications Winner of the Cheryl Simon Writing Award for Subtext’s Fall 2023 issue It is a well-known fact that the horror genre has not been particularly kind to women. In the past, horror films often have offered tropes, such as the “Final Girl”…
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