What Women Want, per Catherine Breillat
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda...
Lori Marso is the author of several articles and books, most recently Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Duke, 2017); editor of Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers (Routledge, 2016); and co-editor of Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (Oxford, 2016). She is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York, currently living in New York City, and her new book, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda...
Lori Marso reviews Christine Smallwood’s book on “La Captive” (Chantal Akerman, 2000).
Lori Marso looks at “Priscilla” within Sofia Coppola’s white girl oeuvre.
Lori Marso explores feeling plastic in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and the works of Chantal Akerman.
Lori J. Marso uses Simone De Beauvoir and a feminist phenomenological lens to consider Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” a film adapted from the work of...
Is Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” feminist?
Lori Jo Marso reads Annie Ernaux’s latest memoir alongside de Beauvoir.
Three recent texts recast the social roles of mothers and the psychology of motherhood.