She sees herself in the creature, she shares in its sexual difference and othered status, but she returns the creature’s gaze and she is not afraid…she’s turned on.
All tagged Media Theory
Lesbian Jesus: Thoughts on Hayley Kiyoko LIVE in a Small Town
Hayley Kiyoko, lovingly nicknamed “lesbian Jesus”, is bringing queer experiences into the mainstream music world – and it was clearly hungry for it.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fans & Textual Poaching
The unwilling transportation of female heroines to comic-style pinups and horror rag-style splash art is still all too common, and has landed many a cult character squarely in the gaze she had been skillfully evading.
Dystopian Blueprints: Architecture as Narrative in Blade Runner and The Fifth Element
With its ability to remain and tell its designers’ truths, comes architecture’s great capacity to tell their lies. Architectural curiosity on and off screen has been cautiously excavating our future—our cities are populated by simulacra structures, built to resemble the future we envision, but cannot yet exist.