Femenist reading of IV

[alice wellintown]

Female-exploitation films seen in new light
A UCLA series highlights the feminist angle in movies such as
'Terminal Island,' 'Bad Girls Go to Hell' and 'Gator Bait.' July 24,
2009|Mark OlsenThe UCLA Film & Television Archive series "No She
Didn't!: Women Exploitation Auteurs" looks at the unlikely
intersection of female filmmakers and the grubby titillation of prison
flicks, biker pictures and slasher movies. It kicks off tonight at
UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater with a screening of the 1973 film
"Terminal Island" with director Stephanie Rothman scheduled to
introduce the movie.

Finding the sweet spot where egghead academicism and thrill-seeking
movie-fandom meet, the series, which ends Aug. 8, also includes Doris
Wishman's "Bad Girls Go to Hell" (1965) and "Another Day, Another Man"
(1966), Beverly Sebastian's "Gator Bait" (1973), Barbara Peters' "Bury
Me an Angel" (1972) and Amy Holden-Jones' "The Slumber Party Massacre"
(1982). These films are hard to find on home video, being either out
of print, only on VHS or never issued.





On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:40 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not Crumb but Stephanie Rothman. In the end, Feminist Film Theory,
> Exploitation Film Theory, is the skin. Pynchon dives deeper, into
> Critical Theory, plays with Semiotics and Psychoanalysis, but
> ultimately, as he notes in his Slow Learer Introduction, it is not
> race or gender or post-colonial Otherness that interests him, but
> Vlass. So a Marxist reading is most fruitful. It's about Labor.
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Have to say i more or less agree with "He Who Would Be Alice."
>>
>> "Inherent Vice" is just overloaded with feminist markers—Ida Lupino and the
>> "Pussy Eater's Special" among others—little subplots that actively address
>> feminist themes. Of course there is a fair bit of Russ Meyer in the mix in
>> Vineland and to a lesser but similar extent, in IV. It's a little hard to
>> get these two particular conceptual frameworks to jibe together in a single
>> mind, but there you are.
>>
>> Not that I'm an Anti-Semenist, mind you.
>>
>> Next up: Feminist readings of R. Crumb . . .
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:29 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>>> Well, you have to dive a little deeper into that muff. This stuff
>>> ain't floating on the surface.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> more like a Semenist reading in my book
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, alice wellintown
>>>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps nothing Pynchon has written to date  . . .
>>
>>>> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/61/61womeninprison.html
>>
>