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Stephanie‘s Picks: Angela Davis On “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners” by Livia Bloom via Filmmaker Magazine A Reaction to the Backlash Against Mindy Kaling by Nisha Chittal via Racialicious...
View Article‘Homeland’s Carrie Mathison: A Pulsing Beat of Jazz and ‘Crazy Genius’
Carrie Mathison, a haunted yet brilliant CIA analyst. Warning: spoilers ahead! “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” — Billie Holiday In the...
View ArticleWomen in Politics Week: ‘Homeland’s Carrie Mathison: A Pulsing Beat of Jazz...
Carrie Mathison, a haunted yet brilliant CIA analyst This post, by Leigh Kolb, first appeared at Bitch Flicks on October 10, 2012. Warning: spoilers ahead! I hate straight singing. I have to change a...
View ArticleWomen in Politics Week: Homeland’s Carrie Mathison
To quote The Awl’s headline from December 2, 2011, Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough. Carrie Mathison burst onto our television screens in October of...
View ArticleWomen in Politics Week: The Roundup
A Lady Lonely at the Top: High School Politics Take an Ugly Turn in ‘Election’ by Carleen Tibbets Election, the 1999 film directed by Alexander Payne and based on the novel by Tom Perotta, chronicles...
View ArticleThe Best of 2012 (I think)
Written by Rachel Redfern. New York Times film reviewer A.O. Scott said that 2012 was a year of Hollywood heroine worship, and he lists some fabulous movies with strong and unique female characters. In...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Television: Boys Only
Written by Rachel Redfern The rise of the anti-hero has most TV and media reviewers heralding the past ten years as revolutionary, a “golden age of television.” And I think it’s true, great television...
View ArticleBitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
Saudi Arabian Film “Wadjda” Quietly Subverts and Stuns by Sarah Mirk at Bitch Media The Big O: How Sandra Bullock Found Her Own Sense of Gravity by Susan Wloszczyna at Women and Hollywood Homeland and...
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