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1950s Sex Comedies: The Unromantic Rise of Toxic Masculinity
By the late 1940s, romantic comedies began transitioning into a new subgenre, retaining a few of the signature screwball traits but with a definite shift of tenor. Instead of the playful sparring that brought females and males together, the contention between them grew less amicable and, in some cases, downright mean-spirited, gradually driving them further […]
Back from Summer Vacation August Viewing Roundup
As Amy straddles two coasts and Devi merrily struggles to keep up with a highly intensive year-long fiction workshop, we’ve been remiss in keeping up with the blog the past few months but, dedicated as always to exploring feminism and storytelling that embraces it, we aim to resume a more regular posting schedule, ideally on […]
LQBTQ Pride Month Viewing Roundup
Yippee! Summer is around the corner, more and more of us are fully vaccinated, AND it’s LGBTQ Pride Month—what could be better? Okay, so many, many, many things could be better obviously, and we must continue to fight the good fight, but now is also a time to celebrate the big and small advances in […]
