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Mansfield 66/67: a punchline too far?

Joanna Whitehead1 May 2018

Jayne Mansfield’s memory is mud in this tacky and tasteless documentary about her life and early demise, laments Joanna Whitehead...

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Is Wonder Woman a feminist?

Guest Blogger7 April 2018

She might be a powerful woman who embraces her strength and physicality, but, Sharon Jagger asks, can we really call Wonder Woman a feminist? ...

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Circus Kathmandu: survivors of trafficking reclaim their skills

Ania Ostrowska26 March 2018

Kate McLarnon, one of the directors of documentary Even When I Fall, tells Ania Ostrowska about the extraordinary journey of her subjects...

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Transgender visibility in television: are we making progress?

Abby Robson21 March 2018

Abby Robson explores the representation of transgender people in television drama, what progress has been made and what needs to happen next...

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To be young, Bipolar and black: Why Nina Simone’s story matters in the wake of #MeToo

Emma Yapp19 March 2018

Emma Yapp looks back at Nina Simone's life and how #MeToo could do better by black and mentally ill women...

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Amy Schumer may be privileged, but she’s allowed to feel ugly

Guest Blogger18 March 2018

It’s dangerous to use a woman’s privilege to justify dismissing her feelings of being unworthy or out of place, writes Katie Jane ...

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Empowered by numbers

Ania Ostrowska28 February 2018

Our film editor Ania Ostrowska summarises the latest report on the numbers of women directors and cinematographers in British film industry...

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Weekly round-up and open thread

Lusana Taylor22 January 2018

This week's selection of interesting links from around the web chosen by the F-Word team ...

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Goodbye Leia (and thank you, Carrie)

Emily Zinkin19 January 2018

Emily Zinkin says goodbye to Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia but is still not done going on adventures in a galaxy far, far away or smashing the space patriarchy...

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Why are bisexual TV characters such complete jerks?

D H Kelly29 November 2017

Bisexual characters remain rare on our TV screens, but D H Kelly notices that when they do appear, they are overwhelmingly sketchy and occasionally villainous ...

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The Sycamore Gap: women filmmakers who tell their stories themselves

Josie Deacon28 November 2017

Meet the all-women team behind The Sycamore Gap, a student film that breaks with the period drama conventions ...

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How to reach the goal of #nopredators in film industry?

Becky Kukla21 November 2017

Becky Kukla chats to Rebecca Long and Ian Davies about Boudica Films’ new campaign launched in the aftermath of Weinstein scandal...

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Shedding light in dark places

D H Kelly3 November 2017

D H Kelly is moved and impressed by the way that The Keepers focuses on the survivors of violence and the mystery of a murder rather than the perpetrators of such violent crimes ...

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Truth, justice, Wonder Woman and wishful thinking

Ellie Wilson2 November 2017

Ellie Wilson explores whether Professor Marston and the Wonder Women takes too many liberties with the truth to represent real progress for polyamory on film...

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In defence of Strictly

D H Kelly28 September 2017

D H Kelly considers the heteronormativity of Strictly Come Dancing and explores how to overhaul the gender norms it promotes...

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Living in between

M. Ly-Eliot26 September 2017

M. Lý-Eliot recommends Maysaloun Hamoud’s In Between, the Arab-Israeli director’s controversial first feature about young Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv...

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How do you measure the distance of reasonable fear?

Ania Ostrowska18 September 2017

Ania Ostrowska talks to American documentarian Yance Ford about his powerful debut Strong Island, available on Netflix...

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A terrifyingly tangible future

Becky Kukla13 July 2017

Despite some changes to her beloved novel, Becky Kukla thinks the serial adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is looking great...

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