Litsy

Thriller Movies: Classic Films of Suspense and Mystery | Lawrence Hammond

I‘ve seen 15/100 of these movies. Here are a few standouts in no particular order. Here‘s the link if you want to take the survey: https://shorturl.at/QvVEM
-Smokey and the Bandit
-Wings
-Return of the Jedi
#TLT

dabbe

dabbe Fab choices from many different eras! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🧡🖤 1mo

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BookwormAHN

101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die | Steven Jay Schneider

I know it's late but here is a #HorrorMovieBingo board for movies and although the movies themselves don't count individually the board and the bingos do 🦇
#HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper #BlackCatCrew

BookwormAHN @Fortifiedbybooks @JessieKB @ShyBookOwl @tdrosebud @hp-lover9000 @MaleficentBookDragon @MartinaLove @TheDaysGoBy @AnnCrystal @Captivatedbybooks @Read4life @ImperfectCJ @texaschaitea @104_goodbuddyy @Allydanielle88 2mo

PuddleJumper Love it! Another bingo board @OutsmartYourShelf @Faranae @zezeki @kwmg40 @DieAReader @JenReadsAlot @Laughterhp @BarkingMadRead @TEArificbooks @DebinHawaii @Larkken
@KT1432 @Roary47 @PaperbackPirate @gossamerchild
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AnnCrystal Thanks 👏🎬😎👍💝. 2mo

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Fr3NcHtOaSt

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation | Susannah Gora

Just watched Brats, the documentary on Hulu and this book was mentioned in it. The documentary was interesting and so well done. Now I have to read this because I am a huge fan of those films and the actors that were part of The Brat Pack.

#YouCouldntIgnoreMeIfYouTried #SusannahGora #TheBratPack #JohnHuges #the80s #book #ebook #kindle

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Robotswithpersonality

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

Next up in quarterly review faves: non-fiction and lit fic. Biggest surprise: all the nature non-fiction I've done in the last three months, none of it ended up sticking with me, and the reading experience/writing quality was really hit and miss. Might have to rethink sampling in that subgenre (no more picking it up because it has a tree on the cover! Literary fiction is never my primary genre, at least I read ONE I loved! 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality

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

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Fucking fascinating. Maybe a little too much Freud. Apologies for the dreadful cover showing in your feed.
Carol J. Clover's 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film' remains one of my faves of the collection, I realize that's my final girl bias showing through.
I think I honestly enjoyed Thomas Doherty's 'Genre, Gender and The Aliens Trilogy' (written back when it was just a trilogy) because those films made such an impression on me. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The collection also expands several times on how the nuclear family (male patriarch) is threatened, essays individually containing stronger or weaker links back to gendered concerns via a mother who is somehow perverse; then stumbles into intersectional territory. There are a number of essays discussing queerness, seemingly more entries about gay men than lesbians, and some discussion of racism. Unfortunately, the inclusion of essays focusing on these topics felt more scattered than intentional and seemed to veer away from discussions of gender and, as the little ♀️symbol on the cover suggests, specifically depictions of women in horror. 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/4 I would love to see a third edition, (there was about ten years between the first and second edition, it's been nearly ten years since the second, so it's time!) with parts that expand upon the gender discussion beyond women as minority gender, into discussion of transgender, non-binary/agender spectrum, perhaps an interlude for new ways the masculine is treated or expanded upon as well, then a dedicated section that focuses more on how gender in family in horror works, with all the mother aspects situated there, and then a dedicated section for how intersecting queerness and bipoc rep into gender affects readings of certain films' texts. 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 In the meantime I'm definitely going to keep poking around for horror non-fiction with this kind of insight, especially centred on the final girl trope. Happy to take reccs if you got 'em!
⚠️ALL THE WARNINGS. If you're worried about it, there's probably at least a mention in this essay collection, and there are also black and white stills from the films in question. BEWARE. 9mo

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Robotswithpersonality

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

The film being discussed is from Belgium in 1970.
It is 2024. WHY are there no feminist, lesbian vampire films I'm hearing about in present day North America?!
That would be so epic. 🙇🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality

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