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Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
The Good News and Bad News for Women in Film This Oscar Season by Esther Zuckerman at The Atlantic Wire Actress Lupita Nyong’o Talks Preparing for Violence in Film ’12 Years a Slave’ by Jamilah King...
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Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
Women Writers Week: Table of Contents at RogerEbert.com 10 Best Female-Centric Biopics by Nina K. Guzman at Bust Mapping the Margins of Middle Earth by Camille Owens at Bitch Media Watch ‘Adama’ –...
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Exploring Bodily Autonomy on ‘American Horror Story: Coven’
This is a guest post by Gaayathri Nair. The horror genre is not commonly kind to women. It has a tendency to rely on violence against women for cheap thrills and is notorious for positioning women as...
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Becky, Adelaide, and Nan: Women with Down Syndrome on ‘Glee’ and ‘American...
Characters with physical or developmental disabilities are rarely given prominent roles on television ensembles, much less well-developed characters. Glee and American Horror Story, TV shows created...
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Death by Stereo: Innocence Lost in ‘The Lost Boys’
This guest post by Bethany Ainsworth-Coles appears as part of our theme week on Movie Soundtracks. Spoilers Ahead The Lost Boys is a classic 1980s vampire flick directed by Joel Schumacher. It is as...
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‘AHS:Coven': Gabourey Sidibe’s Queenie as an Embodiment of the “Strong Black...
This guest post by Cate Young previously appeared at her blog, BattyMamzelle, and is cross-posted with permission. Last week, I read a great article by Nichole Perkins on Buzzfeed that talked about...
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“I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Drawn That Way”: The Exceptionally Beautiful Anti-Heroine
This guest post by Jessica Carbone appears as part of our theme week on Unlikable Women. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This expression is meant to remind those who hear it not to conflate a...
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How Should a Show About Witches Be?
This is a guest post by Kaitlyn Soligan. If “Women in Television” has a unifying theme of the moment, it is this: Everybody Wants a Witch. American Horror Story, Witches of East End, Salem, and HBO’s...
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“You Can’t Sit with Us”: Witchy Girl Gangs and Covens
This guest post written by Michelle Mastro appears as part of our theme week on Women in Horror. The volume of films exploring the hazards of “girl world” is quite robust. Before the comedy Mean Girls...
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