2013 Golden Globes Week: ‘Les Miserables,’ Sex Trafficking & Fantine as a...
Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Miserables Written by Megan Kearns. Some writers, like professor Stacy Wolf, have enjoyed yet criticized the film adaptation of Les Miserables for not being feminist...
View ArticleRethinking Sex Trafficking and Voyeurism: ‘Taken’ and ‘Eden’
Written by Rachel Redfern The current Hollywood climate and the overwhelming ridiculousness of most of the big blockbusters being churned out of that machine is something that we talk about a lot over...
View ArticleCall for Writers: Representations of Sex Workers
Our first Theme Week for 2014 will be Representations of Sex Workers. Feminism has a complicated relationship with sex work. Even the most sex-positive sometimes stop short at embracing voluntary...
View ArticleBeyond the Mainstream: How Indie Films See Sex Workers
This guest post by Nicole Elwell appears as part of our theme week on Representations of Sex Workers. It’s no secret that Hollywood has issues with accurate representations of the daily life it tries...
View ArticleThe ‘Heart of Darkness’ at ‘True Detective’s Core
Watch this video on YouTube. HBO’s newest miniseries True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey (Rusty) and Woody Harrelson (Marty), has already spawned a substantial cult following, receiving...
View ArticleAnother Dead Sex Worker on ‘Game of Thrones’
[caption id="attachment_12826" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Shae is introduced on Game of Thrones[/caption] Written by Amanda Rodriguez. Spoiler Alert Even after the finale of its fourth season,...
View ArticleWhy ‘Pretty Woman’ Should Be Considered a Feminist Classic
This is a guest post by Brigit McCone. Pretty Woman has already been reviewed negatively by Bitch Flicks as “one of the most misogynist, patriarchal, classist, consumerist, and lookist movies ever to...
View ArticleWIGS’ Flagship Series, ‘Blue,’ Offers a Surprisingly Powerful Look at Sexual...
Written by Katherine Murray. Blue is either an amazing bait-and-switch or (more likely) a series that changed its mind about what it was partway through. Either way, what began as an inferior, online...
View Article‘Humans’ Thinks About Gender, Power, and Technology
This is a guest post by Colleen Martell. Set in alternate-present London, the world of AMC’s Humans looks just like ours, except that humans employ high-functioning robots called “Synths” to do all...
View ArticlePatty Jenkins’ ‘Monster’: Shouldering the Double Burden of Masculinity and...
This guest post by Katherine Parker-Hay appears as part of our theme week on Violent Women. When film explores the lives of women who kill, the audience is well-versed in where to locate their...
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