It's time to dig our teeth into some fuckin theory cuz we are goddamn deep, alright?
A New “Fright Night”: What a Difference a Female Screenwriter MakesDebates about whether women’s writing was uniquely female or if there was a “feminine voice” permeated much femininist theorizing in the ’70s and ’80s. While I tend to be wary of claims about difference grounded in biological determinism, I do think that for many female writers their experiences as women, or as what Simone de Beauvoir famously called “the second sex,” often inform their writing. This is partially how I account for the remake of Fright Night being much better–and more feminist-friendly–than the original: The screenplay was written by a woman.
( read moreCollapse )SourceFright Night (2011) – Even The Straight Boys are QueerThere are some things that female directors do better than male directors and one of them is acknowledging the moral and psychological ambiguities inherent in the loss of sexual innocence.
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