On The Eight Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)
@allyzay Ha - fair point. I promise to write a follow-up in November (assuming anyone can stomach more of this)
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On The Eight Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)
@Butterscotch Stalin He is, in fact, awesome.
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On 'Bridesmaids': Am I Doing Being A Woman Wrong?
Great observations, reasoning & analysis. My one (minor) gripe is that "feminist" is becoming a Rorschach test - it means something different to everyone. Is objecting to the shower/bachelorette/bridal narcissism parade ever a feminist activity? Does one really have anything to do with the other anymore? The patriarchal meaning of these traditions that revolved around the "passing off" of a woman etc have all but melted away. Now they're just helpings of capitalist pudding topped with egoist brulée. And the hotness/ugliness rules, as @keanesian pointed out, transcend gender - can we really call that a feminist issue either?
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
@Matt Cornell Yes, Clover covers a number of different types of movies - but she circles and circles around the same theme. The "spectrum of issues" is very academic and interesting in theory - but not all of it holds up beyond a cultural critique of the 70s and 80s. "post-Clover academic feminist film theory" is a pretty narrow demographic - there are a few books out there, though none won quite the same place as Clover and her Final Girl.
And when we talk "genre conventions," what we're talking about in this particular instance is "gender conventions." Which is the whole purpose of this argument.
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
@Matt Cornell Fair point - Clover relies on a very academic analysis -- it rests on the assumption that the Final Girl theory remains a powerful thread in horror because it's the only film character that allows men to truly identify with a female. Which is a fair dissection and may well be true -- but it doesn't apply to modern feminist theory, nor does it take into account the canon of the past decade (her book was written in '93). Scream 4 may indeed suck, but it's the first example of female characters dominating a slasher flick from start to finish.
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
@ruizUSA@twitter Congrats! You are the first person to bring up this movie (i figured someone would), which in truth is pretty damn woman-centered, but hardly mainstream - it was a small release, with no known actors (not in the US anyway). And it's really friggin good - if you like being absolutely terrified the whole time.
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
@Feedittomygoldfish@twitter Haha fair point - though "feminism" never came with a "we all love each other" slogan. Men murder each other over jealousy - why not women?
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
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On ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film
@Feedittomygoldfish@twitter [Ok everything here is spoilers] Very true re: the Olivia Morris hot chick character -- but her gory end was orchestrated by her best friend! Presumably making the grisly murder a byproduct of female jealousy. And whether Hayden Panettiere toyed with him or not, the murderous Culkin was under instruction from a girl the whole time. Still, valid points both.
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On "The Woman in Black": Everything Old Is Good Again
@DMcK While I respect your excellent knowledge, I beg to differ - Price was indeed in The Oblong Box, a Hammer Film. But I concede, that's not many movies at all - I should have clarified/scaled back the Price references. Lee and Cushing were Hammer's Pitt & Cruise.