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Somehow, Ash is Back: How Rook Ruins ‘Alien: Romulus’

In 1977, Ridley Scott was ready to make his next feature film prior to the festival debut of The Duellists. Initially, he planned to make…

Sep 25

Somehow, Ash is Back: How Rook Ruins ‘Alien: Romulus’

Sep 25

‘You Must Accept the Situation’: Artificial Patriarchy Through Artificial Pregnancy in Donald…

The cisheteronormative framing of pregnancy relies on the assumption that natural pregnancy comes out of the heterosexual social contract…

Nov 6, 2023

‘You Must Accept the Situation’: Artificial Patriarchy Through Artificial Pregnancy in Donald…

Nov 6, 2023

‘You Don’t Fucking Know Me’: Unraveling Erotic Autonomy in Patty Jenkins’ ‘Monster’

Tw // rape, child sexual abuse

Aug 14, 2023

‘You Don’t Fucking Know Me’: Unraveling Erotic Autonomy in Patty Jenkins’ ‘Monster’

Aug 14, 2023

‘Let Me Taste You’: Lesbian Vampirism

Lesbian vampirism was a common trope used to get around homophobic censors. It did not start with the Hays Code, as vampire fiction itself…

May 10, 2023

‘Let Me Taste You’: Lesbian Vampirism

May 10, 2023

Not Just For Girls: Queer Reconsideration of the Final Girl Theory

Carol J. Clover’s Final Girl

May 8, 2023

Not Just For Girls: Queer Reconsideration of the Final Girl Theory

May 8, 2023

‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Adds Dimensions to the Exploited Starlet Archetype

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields utilizes the cultural image of Brooke Shields to question the usage of the Lolita figure in popular culture. By…

Apr 3, 2023

‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Adds Dimensions to the Exploited Starlet Archetype

Apr 3, 2023

‘Knock at the Cabin’ Speaks to the Queer, Christian Anarchist Experience

Note: The following piece includes spoilers for Knock at the Cabin and discusses queerbashing and suicide.

Feb 17, 2023

‘Knock at the Cabin’ Speaks to the Queer, Christian Anarchist Experience

Feb 17, 2023

Don’t Trust Your Eye: Subversion of the Male Gaze in Meir Zarchi’s ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ (Revised…

Introduction

Jan 17, 2023

Don’t Trust Your Eye: Subversion of the Male Gaze in Meir Zarchi’s ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ (Revised…

Jan 17, 2023

‘He’s White?’: The Calculated Risk and Reward of Rhetorical Crossover in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’

Along with the larger American public’s social consciousness of Black issues comes a concerted effort to reconsider the crossover of Black…

Nov 20, 2022

Nov 20, 2022

Black Roses Can Wilt: Reinforcing White Feminism with Faux Intersectionality in Don’t Worry Darling

Note: This essay includes spoilers for Don’t Worry Darling. It includes discussion of death by suicide.

Oct 31, 2022

Black Roses Can Wilt: Reinforcing White Feminism with Faux Intersectionality in Don’t Worry Darling

Oct 31, 2022

Sarah Wagoner

Sarah Wagoner

Literature Major, GWST Minor, Graduate Student, She/Her, focus on politics in media, Professional email: sarahwagoner6@gmail

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