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 at Colorlines
Is This the Grossest Advertising Strategy of All Time? by Rebecca J. Rosen at The Atlantic
Frozen’s Head of Animation Says Animating Female Characters is Hard, Because Ladies are Really Emotional and Stuff by Rebecca Pahle at The Mary Sue
Will ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Jump-Start a New Era of Erotic Filmmaking? by Tom Blunt at Word & Film
Weekly Update for October 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You by Kerensa Cadenas at Women and Hollywood
TV’s Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw by Eliana Dockterman at TIME
Jamie Foxx Will Play Martin Luther King Jr In Oliver Stone-Directed Biopic for Dreamworks/WB by Tambay A. Obenson at Shadow and Act
‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Rape Scene Cheered On By Emma Roberts Haters at Oh No They Didn’t!
Just Spend the Rest of Your Day Perusing These Biographies of Women in Early Film by Maggie Lange at The Cut
Alice Munro, ‘Master’ Of The Short Story, Wins Literature Nobel by Camila Domonoske and Annalisa Quinn at NPR
The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist by Katha Pollitt at The Nation
The whole rape scene being cheered on is so super creepy, like, i don’t like Emma Robers as a person either but wtf!?