![]() ![]() She uses Scream as an example of rationalizing female victimization 'for being female' but the movie was written to make that very point-it intentionally pokes fun at the slashers that came before it to make the same observations that Doyle is trying to make seem subtextual in it. Just because Rocky Horror Picture Show doesn't fit her thesis she brings it up just to dismiss it as irrelevant because it's 'campy.' Doyle brings up The Silence of the Lambs as a modern example. ![]() That's okay bc I can still appreciate it's a good book. ![]() I just wasn't persuaded to her version of the current feminist cause. ![]() +I chose to rate this 4 stars because the book is well-written, well-researched and is very coherent. These categories are reinforced throughout written history and to modern day through cultural agreements and the more recent of these cultural artifacts are books, TV, movies and the internet. The premise is that women are not autonomous members of society, but fall into various categories that society has created for them. This is a feminist dissection of how popular culture (mostly American, but others do come up) treats women and femininity. ![]()
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