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The Rise Of The Neoliberal Chinese Female Subject In Go Lala Go, Su-Lin Yu
The Rise Of The Neoliberal Chinese Female Subject In Go Lala Go, Su-Lin Yu
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Built upon feminist critique of neoliberalism, this paper will examine a prominent medium through which neoliberal feminist ideology is disseminated: Go Lala Go. By analyzing the film, I will show how it co-opts the discourse of neoliberalism, and reworks it to construct neoliberal female subjects. First, I will explore what kind of role neoliberalism has enacted in the formation of an emergent type of female subject in China. Then, I will demonstrate how the contentious process of neoliberal feminism affects young career women’s identities. More than career guides promoting different techniques for making women more successful at their workplaces, …
‘I Am That Very Witch’: On The Witch, Feminism, And Not Surviving Patriarchy, Laurel Zwissler
‘I Am That Very Witch’: On The Witch, Feminism, And Not Surviving Patriarchy, Laurel Zwissler
Journal of Religion & Film
While contemporary discussions about witchcraft include reinterpretations and feminist reclamations, early modern accusations contained no such complexity. It is this historical witch as misogynist nightmare that the film, The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015), expresses so effectively. Within the film, the very patriarchal structures that decry witchcraft – the Puritan church from which the family exiles itself, the male headship to which the parents so desperately cling, the insistence, in the face of repeated failure, on the viability of the isolated nuclear family unit – are the same structures that inevitably foreclose the options of the lead character, Thomasin.
Margaret Mccarthy. Mad Mädchen: Feminism And Generational Conflict In Recent German Literature And Film. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017., Bridget Swanson
Margaret Mccarthy. Mad Mädchen: Feminism And Generational Conflict In Recent German Literature And Film. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017., Bridget Swanson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Margaret McCarthy. Mad Mädchen: Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
Women Are Speaking Up At Sundance, Rubina Ramji
Women Are Speaking Up At Sundance, Rubina Ramji
Journal of Religion & Film
Women speak up at Sundance 2018.
Half The Picture, John C. Lyden
Half The Picture, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Half the Picture (2018), directed by Amy Adrion.