Watching the Women's Prison Film
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Killing the Hollywood Star: The Death Row in "I Want to Live!" (1958)
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A late film noir – dating to the same year as Orson Welles’ era-closing Touch of Evil – I Want to Live (1958) comes from an age o...
Thursday, June 19, 2014
The Death Cell in “YIELD TO THE NIGHT” (1956)
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Yield to the Night is an astonishing film in several ways: from its first, explosive opening scene to the final shot of an extin...
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Monday, June 2, 2014
Female criminal / lesbian spectator: Alex Vause, "demi"-potent lesbian antihero of "Orange is the New Black" (2013)
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An alluring member of the raunchy and often hilarious ensemble cast of women’s prison TV-series Orange is the New Black ,...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The penitentiary in "LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT" (1933)
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A distilled genre film fossil, there are scenes in this pre-code era picture that parade the generic summary of what the Women’s...
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The jailhouse scene in Samuel Fuller's "THE NAKED KISS" (1964)
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The Naked Kiss might not fall into the category of the women’s prison film per se. There are merely a s...
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