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18 December 2009 7:34 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Monstrous Feminism and the Avenging Amazon By Paula Graham

On the whole, feminists and lesbians tend to treat the figure of the Amazon as a positive trope for lesbianism and/or feminism. On the one hand, she has the 'masculine' characteristics of strength, physicality and activity and, on the other, she is female-oriented. Her combination of male and female characteristics apparently undermines the exclusivity of gender categories. Her 'chastity' combined with her 'phallic' physicality has obvious lesbian implications. She is perceived by many lesbians and feminists as both 'positive' and 'subversive'...

Representations of the Amazon or female warrior in patriarchal culture, however, may acknowledge a perceived 'threat' of female aggression and seek to neutralise it. Narratives of female militancy tend to enjoy a resurgence in Western patriarchal cultures precisely at historical moments in which there has been an exceptional opening out of gender categories under pressure of social change and political contestation. »

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9 November 2009 12:41 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

You Can't Stop Progress. Hardware Directed by Richard Stanley In a post-apocalyptic future somewhere in a radioactive desert, terminally ill Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) has just returned from scavenging for whatever waste he may find that could be of use to him either back home or for sale. Along his journey he discovers some robotic parts from some unknown android which he brings to his dope-smoking sculptor girlfriend Julie (Stacey Travis) as a Christmas present. She incorporates it into her latest piece, but neither of them is aware that the hardware is actually a robot programmed to kill humans. After settling in and reconnecting following his long absence, their reunion is cut short when the robot awakens, reassembles itself and resumes its original purpose as a government-sponsored population control droid. Despite few similarities, Hardware was dismissed by most as a rip-off of The Terminator. In fact, the film was heavily »

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23 September 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you enjoy Fango blogger/writer Chris Alexander’s contributions to this site, you’ll want to run out and grab Chris Alexander’S Blood Spattered Book when Midnight Marquee Press publishes it in November. The tome is a collection of essays and writings on films—many featured here in his Blood Spattered Blog —that have personally affected Alexander and often, flown under the radar of many others.

The essays, many never before published, address a wide variety of genre fare, including Alice, Sweet Alice, Anthropophagous (a.k.a. The Grim Reaper), City Of The Living Dead (a.k.a. The Gates Of Hell), The Lair Of The White Worm, Count Dracula’S Great Love, The Sentinel, Lifeforce, The Devil’S Nightmare, Demon Seed, Ravenous, Land Of The Minotaur, Nomads, Angel Heart, Psychomania and more. The book will also include new interviews conducted by the author with such film personalities as directors Roger Corman, »

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3 articles from 2009