Originally posted on FEEDBACK Female Film Festival:
To hear many male critics tell it, lesbians were invented sometime in the 1970s, alongside women’s rights and the clitoris. The aggressively ahistorical nature of this attitude (and we all know it’s ahistorical, yes?) is as much a result of the lack of availability of non-mainstream films pre-1970—ones…
Month: June 2020
Queens of Sci-Fi: The ’80s, ’90s and Beyond — the lady from planet x
Originally posted on FEEDBACK Female Film Festival:
By 1980, science fiction was no longer the “niche” genre admired by “outcasts” and “dreamers”. With the success of films like Star Wars and Superman and the rise of Star Trek conventions, science fiction became mainstream. What also was once rare but now flourishing, was an abundance of…
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