Download PDF version I’ve never wrote before about the Fifty Shades of Grey hodgepodge as it seems redundant. I’ve mocked it since the first book came out, because it is mock-worthy and the “fifty shades of” collocation lends itself to...
Download PDF version Just as this post was initially meant to be a short review of the film itself, Paul Schrader’s Cat People (1982) was initially meant to be a remake of a well-known 40s film with the same title....
Author: Macarena Martín Martínez University of Sevilla Download PDF version Existing scholarship on the cultural representation of the Black female body has primarily focused on the dominant stereotypes imposed upon it (Bennett and Dickerson 2001, 4), rather than its self-representation....
Download PDF version of the full article (pt.1 and pt.2) Read pt. 1 HERE! In contrast to the readings of Showgirls in the first part of this essay other approaches can be taken when analysing the film, and here it...
Download PDF version Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven’s much-maligned erotic film, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary later this year. This essay seeks to re-assess the film—which was almost universally derided upon its release in 1995—now that it is a quarter of a century...
Download PDF version As I already claimed in my latest post in this blog regarding “race,” these are times of relativism by which any strategically essentialist claim dignifying an oppressed group is deemed discriminatory by a supposedly neutral alt-right (Fernández...
