Category Archives: Amy’s MOW
I, Tonya: Perpetuating the Cycle of Violence
I have admired Tonya Harding since reading a profile of her in a sports publication around the time of the 1992 Winter Olympic games. In the piece, she explained how she and her mother would walk along the highway looking for bottles to cash in so as to defray the expenses related to her skating […]
Tehran Taboo: The Plight of Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran
What becomes of a society where the citizens are forced to abide by a strict religious code, to which they may or may not ascribe, imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists? That is the central question addressed in the 2017 animated film TEHRAN TABOO. The sexual repression of modern day Iran and the misery that […]
Why Cinema Matters
The first movie I ever saw in the theater was Jaws. It was the summer of 1975 and my parents were too cheap to hire a babysitter. While I credit that experience with sparking my lifelong love of film (horror films in particular), JAWS is not a remotely feminist film. Every character experiencing the adventure […]