This part-review-part-analysis of Netflix’s new original series Jessica Jones is going to sound very similar to many other reviews out there right now. It’s basically fucking amazing.
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Catherine Breillat’s Female Gaze in ‘Abuse of Weakness’
Cross posted at Bitch Flicks as part of The Female Gaze theme week The name Catherine Breillat is almost synonymous with the concept of the female gaze.
Hot Girls Wanted (Jill Bauer & Ronna Gradus, 2015): Interesting, but Nothing New
There is one message ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ is trying to push and it is this; Porn can be exploitative. It’s surprising, in the age of the ever-growing internet, that we need to be reminded of […]
‘Ex Machina’: Do Fembots Dream of Electric Sheep
Cinema is obsessed with the idea of AI. The idea of a being which is almost human, but not quite, has been explored in films countless times. Maybe it’s a comment on how well the image […]
Game of Thrones: Fixating on the Rape Narrative
*TW: Extended discussion of rape within the ‘Game of Thrones’ universe* In my first year at university, my lecturer decided to screen the 1971 film Straw Dogs as part of a module on violence in […]