film
In 2019, “Charlie’s Angels” Isn’t Just about Girl Power—It’s a Critique of Male Leadership
In 2019, Charlie’s Angels is less about impossibly perfect women saving the world.
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Fighting to Thrive: Reflecting on “Boys Don’t Cry” 20 Years Later
Representation matters, but so do the stories that the media—film and television—chooses to tell about trans lives.
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The Final (Male) Frontier: “Lucy in the Sky” and “Proxima” Bring Women Astronauts down to Earth
The final frontier continues to be a male-dominated arena, fertile ground for storytelling that taps into masculine psychologies in symbolically grandiose fashion.
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99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich
The Final Girl is no longer a babysitter or camp counselor, but a working-class outsider to wealth and decadence who is treated as an exploitable object to be lured in with money.
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Finite Love: What Lesbian Period Dramas Lose When We Project Our Fears on Them
Films and television series featuring queer characters are still relatively scarce.
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30 Years Later, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” Is Still Inspiring Young Feminists
Kiki’s Delivery Service offers a safe space that makes you feel connected to others, but most importantly a community of powerful women.
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Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror
Unlike horror-movie fates such as, say, decapitation by paper cutter, aging is the ultimate fright because viewers recognize that they cannot escape it.
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Uneasy Spirits: Black Vengeance in Supernatural Pop Culture
There’s a specter in our midst, and it’s white people’s projection of their own guilt and fear onto the Black search for justice.
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Girl Watchers: The Uneasy Female Gaze of “Black Conflux” and “The Other Lamb”
Two new films challenge sexist coming-of-age tales where teen girls are master manipulators.
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Transmitting Culture: A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers
Always Be My Maybe, Searching, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their children, family, and friends.
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