Friday Friyay: 'From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies' by Molly Haskell
Hi all, happy Friday! I'm back into the swing of things with the semester, but I've also found myself in the middle of something of a creativity rut. I'm not really connecting to anything I'm reading, watching, or listening to. I'm taking it in, even seeing things I enjoy about it, but nothing is really making me sit up and go " oh ", you know. So that is in part why I've decided to read some academic works, including Haskell's From Reverence to Rape , which I've had on my TBR for ages. A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. From the golden age of Hollywood to films of the late twentieth century, Haskell analyzes images of women in movies, the relationship between these images and the status of women in society, the stars who fit these images or defied them, and the attitudes of their directors. This n
