“It rhymes with shmashmortion”: enough talk about exceptions
In the film Knocked Up (2007), when Ben (Seth Rogen) tells his stoner friends that his one-night stand Alison (Katherine Heigl) is pregnant, they offer up a wide range of responses — from...
View Article“I Wish” (2011): wisps of hope and magic
“Maybe a miracle will happen,” ten-year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda) says, after hearing from a classmate a rumor about the new bullet train. The rumor is that when the incoming and outgoing trains pass one...
View Article“The Michelle Obama Diaries” webisodes
Considering I’ve spent this entire blustery, Hurricane Sandy-ish morning dealing with students via email (power’s still on!), watching this 4-minute video has got to be the best 4 minutes of the last...
View ArticleNon-exploitative Halloween costumes; or, how to raise eyebrows
I know, right? If you just DO NOT have the energy to go as Honey Boo Boo or to figure out what Hurricane Sandy would look like if a hurricane was a Halloween costume, you feel pressured to look hot for...
View ArticleYes, he’s holding a cigarette with his toes: “The Unknown” (1927)
I’ve done a piss-poor job of getting into the Halloween mood this year. Being so busy meant I was left to feel dejected by (and envious of) wonderful blog events like Dark Iris’s 31 Days of Horror, in...
View Article“Nobody Else But You” (Poupoupidou, 2011): a girl and her persona
Hi! remember me? This is what happens when one comes back to teaching after being on leave: you’re so knackered by the workload and the avalanche of email that you forget how to blog at the same time....
View ArticleThoughts on the election, forgetting, and The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
I don’t know about you, but this was one of my major responses to the election: Yup, we’re still in 2012. Collective sigh of relief. But I keep thinking back to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian The...
View ArticleSix cures for the darkness of the season
The days are getting shorter, and the semester has arrived at the truly ugliest and most miserable few weeks. Thus, it’s time for Feminéma to offer advice for those affected by the lack of sunlight in...
View ArticleEarly Hitchcock saved & preserved: “The White Shadow” (1924)
Remember last spring, when the Hitchcock “For the Love of Film” Blog-A-Thon was raising money? All our funds went into the preservation of the film The White Shadow, one of the earliest films on which...
View Article“Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) as screwball self-medication
When the recently-released-from-the-looney-bin Pat (Bradley Cooper) first meets the merely “unstable” Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), they assess one other the way a couple of big-game animals might....
View ArticleMy t-day playlist: “Home for the Holidays” (1995)
As of Wednesday morning — the morning before Thanksgiving — I had yet to visit the market. For those of you unfamiliar with this family- and food-oriented American holiday, let me explain that the...
View ArticlePitch: a new look at “Great Expectations”
I watched the BBC’s recent 3-hour version of Great Expectations (2011) last night and was left with one thought: why hasn’t anyone told Estella’s story? She’s waaayyyy more interesting than Pip. Nota...
View ArticleAnd with that, anti-feminist history repeats itself
Yup. As the brilliant Jill Filipovic over at Feministe explains with a brilliant post (and headline), “Women need to stay home and serve men, says woman who makes a career out of telling other women...
View ArticleYeah, because rape charges are a matter of opinion. Public opinion.
Here’s a radical suggestion: let’s keep all the details of rape charges private and out of the media until they have been resolved by the legal system. Because if there’s anything worse than a legal...
View ArticleFeminéma’s fashion korner
Golly, this advice from madeleineishere sure helped me figure out how to dress today! You’re welcome!
View ArticleGrad school nostalgia
When I was searching for a job, one of my harried advisors said, “I don’t know why you want a job. Grad school is great. And jobs are so much work. You have no idea.” I fumed. Well, it sure would be...
View ArticleHere’s why you learn to say no.
Starting roundabout November 15, all I can fantasize about is dedicating a full day to reading a novel and maybe making a batch of holiday cookies. Instead, my classes ended this week and I am now...
View ArticleDrowning in paper, December edition
And that’s my office on a good day. Sans the clerics. Also, you’ll have to imagine a much smaller office. The good news: when you google “drowning in paper,” you come up with an entire website called...
View ArticleBest thing you will watch all week: Sam Gordon is really awesome
There are those days when a video about an amazing girl football star stops me in my tracks. Really. Just watch. (Guess how my grading is coming along?)
View ArticleIntrovert’s paradise: “The Hedgehog” (2009)
Grading completed. Committees survived. The inevitable debriefings afterward — which often take as much time as the meetings themselves — turn out to be not painful, overly gossipy, or derisive about...
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