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katiescho741's review
4.0
Thank you Anna Bogutskaya for breaking my crappy reading run of 2 star books!
This is a great book - it's funny and informative, and it gives you a list of the core films mentioned that are full of bitches, sluts, shrews, and trainwrecks. I loved the titles of each section, which do not shy away from using the words that have branded women for decades. I loved that several characters and actors got mentions in various sections, and that Anna kept to more mainstream cinema even though she's a massive horror and indie fan. There was plenty of variety in the films mentioned though, she brings everything from the Silent Era to recent superhero blockbusters into the conversation about how we see women characters. I especially enjoyed her mentions of the feisty women of the Hollywood Golden Age, as an important reminder that interesting and controversial women were not invented in the 2020s.
A great book for any film fan to read, a lot of fun, but it gives you some important and interesting new ways to think about how we talk about women in films and TV.
This is a great book - it's funny and informative, and it gives you a list of the core films mentioned that are full of bitches, sluts, shrews, and trainwrecks. I loved the titles of each section, which do not shy away from using the words that have branded women for decades. I loved that several characters and actors got mentions in various sections, and that Anna kept to more mainstream cinema even though she's a massive horror and indie fan. There was plenty of variety in the films mentioned though, she brings everything from the Silent Era to recent superhero blockbusters into the conversation about how we see women characters. I especially enjoyed her mentions of the feisty women of the Hollywood Golden Age, as an important reminder that interesting and controversial women were not invented in the 2020s.
A great book for any film fan to read, a lot of fun, but it gives you some important and interesting new ways to think about how we talk about women in films and TV.
siobhanward's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I'll say that I really like this book while also acknowledging the fact that the author is clearly very close in age to me. A lot of the movies and shows she focused on were familiar to me, so that definitely impacted how much I liked the book, while someone less familiar with them may like the book less. I appreciate that Bogutskaya focused heavily on the tropes that lead women to seem unlikeable, but I wish she'd also focused on characters that are just bad people and unlikable, and balanced why those characters were different than the others. Overall though, this was a solid read and I liked Bogutskaya's takes and voice.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny
342718's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
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