Feminism
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Jessica Jones and the Mechanics of “Post-Series Depression”
Warning: The following content contains spoilers. While I should have been studying for exams, I finally gave in to the hype and watched the first…
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Mulan Takes The Bechdel Test
Did I love Disney princesses? Of course I did. We all did. Don’t even try to lie. Everyone is an 8-year-old at some point in…
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Anna Biller’s The Love Witch: A Feminist Approach to the Alternative Horror Genre
Anna Biller’s faux-1960s alternative horror film, The Love Witch (2016), follows the narcissistic and eyeshadow obsessed Elaine in her search for the perfect fairy-tale romance.…
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A Step in the Right Direction: A Review of Disney’s “Moana”
We are slowly entering the age of the reinvention of Disney. Disney has boasted about including diversity in their films for a few years now,…
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Ex_Machina – I am become Death
Somewhere in the wilderness of Alaska there is a house, and inside that house are four people. At least one of these people is not…
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Lilo & Stitch: it only gets better
Check out Part One of this two-part blog series here! Before we delve back into the serious stuff, let’s take a moment to admire the unique…
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OHANA Means Quality Film-Making
The recent addition of Lilo & Stitch to (Canadian) Netflix answers the call of a generation. As we enter the latter half of the 2010s, our cultural shift toward…
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Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name
When Marvel announced that it would be putting out several series on Netflix about street-level heroes, they told us who we’d be getting: Daredevil, Luke…
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When (Super) Strength Isn’t Enough: An Examination of Strong Female Protagonist
What if you were both invincible and had super-strength—yet you still couldn’t save the world? That’s the problem confronting Alison Green, the twenty-year-old protagonist of…
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The Women of Star Wars: Part One
Space opera is a fascinating sub-genre of speculative fiction—part science fiction, part Western, and all action. Star Wars is undoubtedly the most famous example of…
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