Outsmarting the Auteur: Reassigning Power in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie’
A contemporary viewing of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film, Marnie, makes it clear: we must understand the inner workings of the male gaze and annihilate it.
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When Sexually Frustrated Angry White Men (Mis)Read the Classics
Donna Zuckerberg's Not All Dead White Men is a powerful study of the ways the alt-right distorts the understanding of ancient Greek and Roman literature to serve hateful interests today.
Power and Misogyny in ‘Red Sparrow’
Red Sparrow isn't a great spy thriller, but it's a fascinating take on women fighting for control over their own bodies.
Historian Martin Duberman Puts Us to Task with ‘Has the Gay Movement Failed?’
Has the "gay movement" failed? Not yet, suggests this historian's survey. But it urgently needs to reinvent itself.
The Three Faces of Hitchcock
The culture has shattered AlfredHitchcock's legacy into separate identities. We must view him as the brilliant, horrifying, innovative, monstrous composite he authentically was.
Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The first season of this icily horrific series is a crash course in the possibilities of a uniquely American 'It Could Happen Here' patriarchal Christian fascism.
When ‘Unsane’ First Sinks Its Claws into You, It Sinks Them Deep
The way Soderbergh knocks loose our grip on reality is paralyzing and unforgettable.
Ministry, L7, Sex, and Violence
We need to talk about Ministry's anti-war statement, because it encapsulates so much that's so wrong about testosterone-driven masculinist activism.
Where’s the So-called ‘Feminism’ in Zack Snyder’s Violent ‘Sucker Punch’?
Cinema's Russian doll of vacuous misogynist hyper-sexualised spectacle is a swing-and-a-miss.
Zac Brown Band: Jekyll and Hyde
A mess of competing signals and bad politics mar what could have been a blandly competent country rock experience.