I don’t remember the first time I watched The Parent Trap, but the movie came out in 1998—the same year my own parents divorced—and it made quite an impression on 8-year-old me. The film became a beloved fixture of my childhood, and, 25 years later, it’s now a nostalgic comfort movie in my adulthood. Whenever […]
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! The “male gaze” was first named by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” The term
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Love them or hate them, the Academy Awards are something of a religion in my family. When I was a kid, while Sundays were technically one of my dad’s days, my sister and I were legally required to be at our mom’s place for Oscar night because it was listed as a holiday in my
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Alana and Lillie discuss (with spoilers!) the new Kindred series on Hulu/FX, the challenges of book to series adaptation, and the question of whether or not the power of Octavia Butler can be achieved on-screen. Books mentioned: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret
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“Hello, gorgeous,” she says to her own damn self in the mirror. This iconic line spoken by a woman and written by a woman opens Funny Girl in both the Broadway musical and the 1968 film starring Barbra Streisand. I grew up watching the movie Funny Girl on a regular basis, and seeing the theater
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