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Body Horror Intertwined with Reproductive Healthcare: Rewatching The Fly (1986) & Dead Ringers (1988) Today
While The Fly is implicitly and explicitly about abortion, Dead Ringers takes on the entire sphere of gynecological healthcare – how the patriarchy poisons even a sphere where pregnant people should feel safe and listened to.
Why Can’t Cinema Satisfy Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
The biggest problem with adaptations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not just thinly drawn characters or poorly filmed sex scenes, it is in how they leave what makes the novel intellectually provoking on the cutting room floor.
Don't Worry Darling and the Sexual Politics of Control
Guest contributor Zoe Rogan explores the parallels between Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling and Luis Buñuel’s Belle du Jour – both films set within repressive worlds, heavy on themes of control, patriarchy and sex, and feature women who seek to break free.