“I love slasher films, but they don’t love me back. Being a woman who is interested in g
“I love slasher films, but they don’t love me back. Being a woman who is interested in genre cinema means that she is in a constant game of negotiation with the films that she is watching. She will search for images to reclaim for herself or find the truth of a character who may only be in the film to get hacked to bits by the latest knife-wielding madman. To understand why she gravitates toward movies which often hold no respect or common decency for her gender it becomes necessary to ask the question: ‘How does a woman watch anything?’”Willow Catelyn Maclay embarks on a new column devoted to women in genre cinema at Notebook. -- source link
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