(no subject)

[d_aulnoy]

So, Deadgirl.  Am I watching this?  You bet your sweet bippie I am.  Why?  This rather brilliant post by Annalee Newitz on io9.com, my New Favorite Website.  What's it about, you ask?  Zombie feminism, or just what it is that women have to do to become unrapable.

Now, there's a good chance that I'll hate the movie.  Rape scenes in movies squick me out beyond belief, I think because so few filmmakers know how to shoot them without involving some degree of titillation.  It's like they see nudity+sex and they can't not transpose the y on the end of one onto the other.  But, at the same time, there's the carrot at the end of the stick - this could be another wonderful piece of speculative feminist filmmaking!  And, by "another," I mean, "joining 'Ginger Snaps.'"  Yes, yes, I know about "Alien(s)," but, a) there are some issues in there about femininity, Vasquez aside - oh, wait!, I mean, check out Vasquez - and, b) that was 1979. 

Now, I've been looking - I rented the dreck that was "Teeth," for pete's sake - but good commentary on gender relations which uses the metaphor of fantasy has been pretty thin on the ground in the world of cinema, as far as I can tell (though I would implore you to tell me otherwise, if you know of cool sources).  I will take what I can get.

Also, to go back to my first paragraph.  It is, now and apparently always, a question of what women have to do.  Not men.  Maybe it's just me, but that's the really horrifying bit about the horror genre, and, most days, reality.

Why, yes, I am getting ready for the first day of the term tomorrow!  How could you tell?

P.S. - I am ashamed, but I now also want to see "Zombie Strippers."  Who's with me?

Comments

[heathencorp.livejournal.com]

i literally JUST finished reading that same article! it got my brain all ticking, but i don't want to write a paper on it because then i'd have to watch them all alot and i'm not prepared for that. but if you use this, you should also check out 'stacy' (or maybe 'stacies')-- a japanese zombie movie about girls who turn zombie because no one is loving them right.

~;)

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Hee, synchronicity! I don't want to write a paper on it for much the same reasons, but I do wish that *somebody* would, because it's a potentially fascinating topic. I will have to keep an eye out for that somebody ... and, in the meantime, watch "Stacy/ies" ....

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I've been told that Zomebie Strippers is good. If it's playing locally, I might be interested in seeing it.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

D'you know, I only just realized that we're local to one another? This is a fact that bears consideration ....

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I am, indeed, pretty local. Though also really busy this weekend.