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[slayerbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) — “ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING” + songs.

[slayerbuffy]

“To me it’s almost the most important shot in the show because it really shows the mystery of their relationship. And that’s one where I wanted the audience to fill in the blanks. I wanted them– I wanted whatever you want to have happened, to have happened. If people believe that on their last night together they made love, great! If they believe that on their last night together they talked all night, great! If they believe that they had a fight, great! 

Whatever it is, it’s up to the viewer and I think that the viewer has earned that, and I love that elliptical nature of their last night together. I think that there should be work for the viewer to do, in that sense, emotionally, because I think it makes it more textured. And that shot of the two of them looking at each other, I just find beautiful.”

Audio commentary for Buffy the Vampire Slayer – ‘Chosen’ (S07E22).

[slayerbuffy]

Why does everybody in this house think I’m still in love with Spike?

BUFFY & SPIKE — season 7.

[hxgrl]

always seeing posts on here about pathetic men but what about pathetic women. where's the love for us underachieving cunts. lethargic women. slug women. I do fuckall every day and expect rewards. i am your poor little meow meow. #feminism

[marypickfords]

hey! do you have any specific recs for books about women & horror? i'm reading kier la-janisse's house of psychotic women and really into it

i’m reading it too! and yes, here are some i have read/want to:

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse

Horror by Brigid Cherry

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed

Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde by Joan Hawkins

Female Masochism in Film: Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics by Ruth McPhee

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror by Kimberly Jackson

Killing Women: The Visual Culture Of Gender And Violence by Susan Lord

Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror by Rikke Schubart

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood by Sarah Arnold

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Sue Short

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing by Isabel Cristina Pinedo

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman’s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror by David Greven

Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre by Claire Henry

Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant

The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography by Robert Michael Bobb Cotter

The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modleski

Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture by Yvonne D. Sims

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington

Suspiria by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Jack Halberstam

Ms. 45 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West

Women in Horror Films, 1940s by Gregory William Mank

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture by Raechel Dumas

Offensive Films: Toward An Anthropology Of Cinéma Vomitif by Mikita Brottman

[dearorpheus]

hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror. 

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009

[gaycommunist]

the monstrous feminine: wounds and rage

euripides, from “hippolytos, grief lessons: four plays” translated by anne carson // “the madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination” sandra gilbert and susan gubar // @girlinterruptedpdf // catherynne m. valente “deathless” // safiya sinclair // aleksandra waliszewska // anne carson // “white oleander” janet fitch // anne sexton @heavensghost // @blacklodgelesbian // “crazy” jasmine mans

[halfbakedcake]

Favourite Podcasts From This Month:

1. Imaginarium by @nadjahwrites

IMAGINARIUM : An Alternate History Of Art

Listen to IMAGINARIUM : An Alternate History Of Art on Spotify. Welcome to Imaginarium: an alternate history of art. A podcast where we delv

2. You’re Wrong About

You're Wrong About

Listen to You're Wrong About on Spotify. Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider a person or event

[halfbakedcake]

god said you can be happy (vampire academy series!) but not too much (created by juile pl*c)

[threesideddream]

i just got my first "our statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people" email and while i'm excited to see a public announcement of support, i'm having flashbacks to last summer and all these companies sending emails about how much they love Black people so you should still buy their shit and i'm pre-tired

[halfbakedcake]

i think the difference is about visibility and who benefits from it. black people have continuously talked about how hyper invisibility for their community does not equate to equality, even more so for black women who remain so visible in today’s (media) industry but they still face the same problems they did 10-20 years ago.

this changes with palestine because the media has been VERY comfortable with never talking about them. because they know if the american public ever finds out where their tax dollars go to and what they’re doing, there will be an upheaval (which is what’s happening now).

I guess what i’m trying to say is, some movements benefit from visibility while others don’t. Palestinians have mentioned time and again their movement needs traction online and offline. So to me, these things are a victory.

[1rakus]

im tryna make an enormous half-online toxic polycule and ruin like 20 peoples lives

[random-brushstrokes]

Paul Colin - Josephine Baker in banana skirt (1927)

[theweefreewomen]

Yet Another List of Video Essays

Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor - Folding Ideas

About the film Annihilation, how to find meaning in subtext-heavy film, and bad-faith movie criticism.

The Psychological Horror of Gaslighting, Explained - cherry bepsi

Looks at the films Gaslight and The Invisible Man (2020), as well as the manga story The Town Without Streets by Junji Ito.

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities - Broey Deschanel

An exploration of celebrity culture and how damaging it is.

Elevated Horror & The Purpose of a Genre - Pim Is Online

Talks about the trend of 'elevated' horror films.

Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood? | Genre and the Adventure Game - Innuendo Studios

About adventure games, game genres, and genres as a whole.

Fortnite: The Party That's a Platform - Errant Signal

An exploration of the good and and the bad of Fortnite, with reference to Dan Olson's video and Tevis Thompson's article on the game.

Remembering With A Twist - A Jojo Rabbit & The Book Thief Video Essay - LadyKnightTheBrave

A deep dive into novel The Book Thief and Jojo Rabbit and how they portray Nazi Germany and Jewish characters.

Why the Music in Cats (2019) is Worse than you Thought - Sideways

An exploration into why the music in the Cats film is as bad as it is. (Note: the video got copyright-claimed, so parts of the video either have replaced music or are muted for a few seconds.)

A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest - Jacob Geller

The art of translation.

[halfbakedcake]

besties share your favourite video essays (mostly about literature, internet, cultural issues, and movies)

[giallomp4-deactivated20230221]

i got some video essays to share w/y'all too:

We Need to Talk About Film Criticism

Talent Belongs to the Beautiful - How Media Manipulates Your Tastes

Jeffree Star and Performative Activism

The Demonization of the Working Class

I'm Kinda Over This Whole 'LeftTube' Thing

Yo Homes to Bel Air, A Retrospective of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us

We Need to Talk About Lolita

Roseanne of The Conners: A Leftist Reading of the First Nine Seasons (Part 1) / Roseanne of The Conners: From Revival to Reboot (Part 2)

Space Jam: A Revolutionary Text

Political Messages in Kids' Shows

What RUINED VeggieTales? - The Tragic Fall of Bob and Larry

Jennifer's Body and the Horror of Bad Marketing

The Horrors of McKamey Manor (Is the Waiver Legal?)

Lesbian Bride Surprise on Living Single

The Gay Nightmare

A History of "Bisexual"

Comedy Ages Poorly

The Problem With Auto-Tune

Phantom of the Paradise: Creator vs Producer

The Broken Formula of Music Biopics

WHAT KILLED MTV? Why don't they play music anymore?!

Another "Cinderella" Story: Girl Groups & Recycled Singles

SO WHAT HAPPENED?: TLC from Fanmail to 3D...

WHAT KILLED SKA-PUNK?

WHAT KILLED HOT TOPIC?

BABY PHAT ENTERPRISE: How Kimora Lee Simmons Pioneered 2000's Fashion

FASHION NOVA'S SHADY HISTORY OF RIPPING OFF BLACK WOMEN & IMMIGRANT WORKERS

MISS CLEO: THE FRAUDULENT PSYCHIC EMPIRE

The Strange World of Breatharianism

The Internet's Most Controversial ARG | Junko Junsui

The Story of the ESRB

Space Channel 5: The Complete History

Defunctland: The History of Action Park

The Pure Ideology of Kitchen Nightmares

FlexiPlay: The Disposable DVD That Failed (Thankfully)

The Decline of The History Channel

How Documentaries Lie to You

addendum: terfs and radfems are not welcome on here girl. don't interact with this post

[tobebrutaltobekind]

The intimacy of answering the phone “Hey you.” The intimacy of stopping to wait when someone needs to tie their shoe. The intimacy of knowing when someone’s voice is thick with worry or sleep. The intimacy of singing (badly) with someone in the car. The intimacy of huddling together under a shelter/umbrella. The intimacy of instantly recognising someone’s handwriting. The intimacy of trying to make plans and, “Oh no we can’t, you’re working that day.” The intimacy of matching your pace to theirs as you walk. The intimacy of being there for someone as they cry. The intimacy of “How did you know that?” “Because I know you.” The intimacy of feeling someone’s warmth through their clothes when you hug. The intimacy of being given change that’s warm from the heat of someone else’s hand. The intimacy of shared, comfortable silence. The intimacy of knowing how someone would react. The intimacy of keeping the radio off when someone falls asleep on a long car journey. The intimacy of sharing one earbud each. The intimacy of noticing someone’s nervous habits. The intimacy of “I had a dream about you.” The intimacy of inside jokes. The intimacy of feeding someone food as they drive (or really any other time). The intimacy of knowing just how someone likes their tea/coffee. The intimacy of trying something new together and having no idea what you’re doing; the shared hesitancy. The intimacy of someone saying “Text me when you’re home safe.” The intimacy of someone falling asleep next to you. On your shoulder. In your company. The intimacy of sharing secrets in the nighttime, because 3am will never tell. The intimacy of someone’s pet recognising you and coming over to say hello. The intimacy of “This made me think of you.” The intimacy of borrowing a jacket still warm from their body heat.  The intimacy of seeing someone’s unfocused eyes when they first wake up. The intimacy of ordering food and “shall we share it?” The intimacy of someone sharing the meaning behind their tattoos. The intimacy of just looking at someone and dissolving into laughter together.

[thepowerwithin]

“Imagine if you didn’t have any expectations. If you just simply tried your best, put in a full effort, and ended up at your own personal best. Imagine. You wouldn’t criticize yourself for not doing well enough. You wouldn’t have anything to compare your results to. You wouldn’t feel down about others doing better than you. You would simply be proud of yourself, for you yourself know that you have your all. You would respect yourself, for it is your results and yours only that would matter. Imagine.”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin