Tag Archives: Sex & gender

by Andreas | May 28, 2011

The Foxy Grey Fox

By Andreas Howard Hawks mystifies me. A former pilot and avid outdoorsman, Hollywood’s “Grey Fox” was tight-lipped in interviews and is popularly viewed as the poster child for Hollywood classicism. By and large, his movies are old-fashioned genre fare about … Continue reading →

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Tagged as ball of fire, barbara stanwyck, Bondage, gary cooper, howard hawks, humphrey bogart, incest, lauren bacall, montgomery clift, paul muni, red river, scarface (1932), science fiction, Sex & gender, the big sleep, the thing from another world, westerns

by Andreas | May 14, 2011

Gender, Sympathy, and the “Monstrous Hero”

By Andreas Forever ago (i.e., last October), I wrote about my horror-centric comps project. I planned to analyze Cat People, The Haunting, Carrie, and May to glean what each film had to say about female sexuality, and how these ideas … Continue reading →

Hell is Other Ballerinas

I finally saw Black Swan, and so did Ashley, right before the big holiday weekend. She had a lot to say about it, including the fact that Mila Kunis was really sexy. I thought that Winona Ryder didn’t get enough … Continue reading →

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by Andreas | December 16, 2010

Selling Out on the Street of Shame

Over at Shadowplay, David Cairns’ The Late Show – a blogathon devoted to directors’ late and last movies – rages on. Since I contributed to it on Sunday with a post about Eric Rohmer’s The Romance of Astrea and Celadon … Continue reading →

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by Andreas | December 3, 2010

Link Dump: #13

Inspired by today’s Kindertrauma Funhouse, the above picture comes from Roger Corman’s early black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959), something of a companion piece to Little Shop of Horrors (1960). In it, Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley (a character … Continue reading →

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Tagged as a bucket of blood, black comedy, censorship, comedy, comics, david wojnarowicz, john waters, johnny depp, kitty!, leslie nielsen, Link Dump, links, my son john, poster art, queer, rainer werner fassbinder, roger corman, self-styled siren, Sex & gender, terrence malick, the criterion collection, the simpsons, the sniper