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The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television
Advanced search Journal of Popular Film and Television Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/01956051.2024.2446000?needAccess=true "The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television." Journal of Popular Film and Television, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.
WIDE ANGLE: ALIENATING FEMINISM
In Alien: Romulus, Rain Carradine (Caylee Spaeny) and her android “brother” Andy (David Jonsson) are marginalised and exploited by their mining colony. They join a group of young people who stage a raid on an abandoned space station in the hope of stealing equipment so they can planet hop to a better world. But in the Alien universe, space vessels are never abandoned for no reason.
Nazi history, reality TV deception and the making of Apocalypse Now: what we’re streaming in September
Ready to catch the latest screen hits for September? This month brings a fresh batch of content, including some older documentaries now streaming thanks to DocPlay and the new National Film and Sound Archive Player. The first of these, Hearts of Darkness, is a timely watch as we await Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming passion project, Megalopolis (and as Coppola continues to make headlines for kissing extras on the film’s set).
The Alien films have always been contradictory in their feminism - but Alien: Romulus avoids the issue entirely
This piece contains spoilers. In Alien: Romulus, Rain Carradine (Caylee Spaeny) and her android “brother” Andy (David Jonsson) are marginalised and exploited by their mining colony. They join a group of young people who stage a raid on an abandoned space station in the hope of stealing equipment so they can planet hop to a better world. But in the Alien universe, space vessels are never abandoned for no reason.
Psychological drama, wilderness reality and everyone’s favourite dog: the best of streaming this May
It seems to be a time of old favourites. This month our experts have recommended two new seasons – the second season of Alone Australia (although oddly enough with that name, it takes place in Aotearoa New Zealand) and the third season of Bluey – a Patricia Highsmith adaptation, and, following the hot new trend, an adaptation of a video game. For a sadder hit of nostalgia, Edith Jennifer Hill has watched Quiet on Set, which casts a new light on old Nickelodeon favourites.
Critics can’t decide if Andrew Scott’s Ripley is mesmerising or charmless - just as Patricia Highsmith wrote him
Fresh from All of Us Strangers(2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a miniseries based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.” In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to come home to America.
Film review: Evil Does Not Exist
The forest canopy sways as Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) chops wood in a clearing. It is cold and snow is on the ground, and Takumi – in early middle age with a placid, unreadable face – prepares the wood with great care. The camera follows in real time as he saws a log into sections then splits each one into quarters for the fire, loads it onto a wheelbarrow and arranges it on the wood stack next to the house.
Film review: Freud’s Last Session
Hitler is on the march; Germany has ignored an ultimatum and Britain is at war. In this doomsday atmosphere of one devastating war followed quickly by another, an Oxford English don, author CS Lewis, visits the ailing father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, to talk about God and life.
How blank is too blank? Andrew Scott plays an incalculable Ripley
Fresh from All of Us Strangers (2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a mini-series based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’”. In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to come home to America.
Film review: The First Omen
If you see this and wonder why the late Gregory Peck is the face of the American diplomat who switches his biological baby for another, you don’t know your Omen. In the 1976 original, Peck played Robert Thorn, who, at the urging of the hospital chaplain, replaced his baby who died soon after birth with another. His wife, Katherine (played by Lee Remick), never knew and they christened the boy Damien.
How blank is too blank? Andrew Scott plays an incalculable Ripley
Fresh from All of Us Strangers (2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a mini-series based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.” In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to come home to America.
Critics can’t decide if Andrew Scott’s Ripley is mesmerising or charmless - exactly as Patricia Highsmith wrote him
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Critics can’t decide if Andrew Scott’s Ripley is mesmerising or charmless - exactly as Patricia Highsmith wrote him
Fresh from All of Us Strangers(2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a miniseries based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.” In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to come home to America.
Critics can’t decide if Andrew Scott’s Ripley is mesmerising or charmless - exactly as Patricia Highsmith wrote him
Fresh from All of Us Strangers[1](2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a miniseries based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed[2] Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations[3] are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.” In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to come home to America.
Promising Young Woman and the cinematic renegotiation of gender in rape-revenge
This article was peer reviewed. Introduction How do we keep the past alive without becoming its prisoner? How do we forget it without risking its repetition in the future? Is it legitimate to sacrifice the truth to ensure peace? And what are the consequences of suppressing that past and the truth it is whispering or howling to us? … [And can] violence be avoided? Rape-revenge is generally not an art for the forgetful.
Guide to the classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
American journalist Hunter S Thompson is a mythical figure, partly by his own design, and partly, perversely, against his wishes. Norman Mailer called him “a legend in successful self-abuse.” Biographer E. Jean Carroll reported Thompson’s daily working regime, which allegedly started at 3pm. While writing he consumed: Chivas Regal, Dunhills, cocaine, orange juice, marijuana, Heineken, huge helpings of food, LSD, Chartreuse, clove cigarettes, gin and pornographic movies.
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