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Horror Week 2012: The Final Girl Gone Wild: Post-Feminist Whiteness in ‘Scream 4’

  Guest post written by Jeremy Cornelius. Warning: massive spoilers ahead!! Wes Craven’s 1990s Scream trilogy completely rewrote the slasher genre in a postmodern meta-film. In March 2011, Scream 4 was released, ten years after Scream 3 was originally released, starring the original trio: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox-Arquette along with some new … Continue reading “Horror Week 2012: The Final Girl Gone Wild: Post-Feminist Whiteness in ‘Scream 4’”

Why I Love ‘Adventure Time’

Title Screen for Adventure Time Warning: Spoilers up to the end of Season 3 Adventure Time is a Cartoon Network animated series that combines surrealistic comedy, fantasy and science-fiction. Based on a 2008 short by Pendleton Ward that went viral, it parodies the tropes, archetypes and cliches of fairy tales, video games and childhood action … Continue reading “Why I Love ‘Adventure Time’”

‘Pitch Perfect’ and Third-Wave Feminism

Written by Leigh KolbSocial movements are not without their problems. America’s second- and third-wave feminists (the mothers from the 60s and 70s and their literal and figurative daughters, who have come to age in the 80s, 90s and 2000s) have often appeared to be at odds with one another, and even within themselves. Even though the … Continue reading “‘Pitch Perfect’ and Third-Wave Feminism”

Why I’ve Fallen in Love with ‘New Girl’

The main cast of New Girl I’m not sure what’s happened, but I have fallen head over heels in love with FOX’s New Girl. I devoured the first season within a week and immediately caught up on the first few episodes of season two.  New Girl wasn’t a show I ever planned on watching. I … Continue reading “Why I’ve Fallen in Love with ‘New Girl’”

10 Reasons Why ‘The Addams Family’ Is Awesome(ly) Feminist

The cast of The Addams Family 1. Anjelica Huston was 40 when she played Morticia. Considering that it’s very hard for women over 40 (who aren’t A-listers) to get lead parts, that’s already a milestone. But she’s also sexy. Incredibly sexy. Yes, she’s playing the mother of a pair of preteens, but she appears immaculately … Continue reading “10 Reasons Why ‘The Addams Family’ Is Awesome(ly) Feminist”

‘Homeland’s Carrie Mathison: A Pulsing Beat of Jazz and ‘Crazy Genius’

Carrie Mathison, a haunted yet brilliant CIA analyst. Warning: spoilers ahead! “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.”  — Billie Holiday In the pilot episode of Homeland, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), hurries back to her Washington D.C. apartment after a night … Continue reading “‘Homeland’s Carrie Mathison: A Pulsing Beat of Jazz and ‘Crazy Genius’”

‘The Master’: A Movie About White Dudes Talking About Stuff

Movie poster for The Master Well this movie is a piece of shit. Slim at Gone Elsewhere does an excellent job of explaining the plot, so if you don’t know the plot, go there first … then come back here and let me explain to you why this movie is a piece of shit. I … Continue reading “‘The Master’: A Movie About White Dudes Talking About Stuff”

Oscar Hosts Preferable to Seth MacFarlane: An Abbreviated List

Seth MacFarlane, unpleasant person and recently-announced host of the 85th Annual Academy Awards  Seth MacFarlane has been tapped to host the 85th Annual Academy Awards next February.  MacFarlane is the creator of The Family Guy and several other animated television programs (American Dad, The Cleveland Show) known for their blatant hostility toward women, people of … Continue reading “Oscar Hosts Preferable to Seth MacFarlane: An Abbreviated List”

White Dudes Sayin’ Stuff: A Journey Through Conservative Political Cartoons

Trigger Warning: Misogyny, rape, child abuse, domestic abuse Dripping sarcasm ahead. And now for something completely different. In addition to my hobbies of watching films and cartoons, I like reading comics. Sometimes I read the highbrow stuff like Maus or Persepolis, and sometimes I read trash. Complete and utter bullshit. One of the longstanding traditions … Continue reading “White Dudes Sayin’ Stuff: A Journey Through Conservative Political Cartoons”

E.T. – Queer Space Jesus

People love writing stories about Space Jesus. The Ur-example is, for me, Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still (believe it or not, the scriptwriter thought he was being subtle with that one, bless his heart). An alien stranded, alone of its kind, on another planet is the very archetype of a stranger in … Continue reading “E.T. – Queer Space Jesus”

‘Carousel’: A Fairytale Screen Adaptation of the 2012 Republican Anti-Woman Agenda

Movie poster for Carousel I loved this film. When I was 13 or so. Re-watching it this week—for the purpose of writing about how much I admired the way it handled domestic violence issues (in 1956, no less)—I realized my 13-year-old self understood jack shit about misogyny in film, and she certainly didn’t understand what … Continue reading “‘Carousel’: A Fairytale Screen Adaptation of the 2012 Republican Anti-Woman Agenda”