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Jeanne Dielman: The Queen of Quarantine The year is 2020, the writer is me, the time is quarantine, and the class I am in requires me to watch an almost four-hour long, obscure, cult-classic, “feminist,” film (but we’ll get into that), a Criterion Classic, entitled: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels. Apparently, most scholarsContinue reading “Final”

Blue left me feeling blue, emptier than I was already feeling, from the isolation, from the lonliness, from the anxiety, from the days alone on end. Blue turned to black as days turned to gray. Nights became day as the screen churned and changed, and blue became questionable. Is blue, blue? If it is blue,Continue reading “Blue”

Don’t worry everyone – just another white woman here to discuss race in Paris is Burning – exactly what you asked for, right? I’d like to compare Contreras’s ideas on New Queer Cinema with hooks’s ideas of Paris is Burning. Where hooks explains why she is bothered by the images of the black people inContinue reading “Race in Paris is Burning”

SERIOUSLY PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS BLOG POST IF IT WILL TRIGGER YOU – THERE’S A LOT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT MY ASSAULT IN HERE. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open tells an important story that I don’t think I’ve ever personally seen before in traditional Hollywood cinema. Although it’s subtle, to watchContinue reading “A Big ‘Ol Trigger Warning for Domestic Assault/Abuse”

For me personally, I can’t stand the “F” word. And no, I’m not talking about the word “fuck,” I’m talking about the word/words “faggot”/”fag”. Story time: my dog becomes nervous if he’s not wearing clothes, and when we went to go visit my grandparents in Florida, my grandfather called Tony a “fag” because he wasContinue reading “The Celluloid Closet”

Halloween is not a feminist film. In fact, there is something about this film that makes it seem as though it is the embodiment of patriarchy in it of itself. As Susan Jeffords explains in her book, Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era, the 80’s were a very hard time unless one was aContinue reading “Feminism and Halloween”