Episode 42: WiHM Director Spotlight: Julia Ducournau: RAW (2016) & Titane (2021)
It’s Women in Horror Month! So, for this episode we decided to put the spotlight on the French film director Julia Ducournau. We are discussing her debut feature film Raw (2016) and her most recent release Titane (2021), which made her the second female director to ever win a Palme d’Or award. We will also be briefly discussing her short film from 2011, Junior. The themes that we will be dissecting will be body horror from the female gaze, the monstrous feminine, as well as sexuality and gender as represented in Julia’s films.
Enjoy and welcome to our dark side…
Intro/Outro Music: Robeast by Dance with the Dead
Artwork by: Jess Hrycyk
Editing work by: Jessica
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The Spinsters Library:
POWERS OF HORROR: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva
https://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/touchyfeelingsmaliciousobjects/Kristevapowersofhorrorabjection.pdf
The Resurgence of the Monstrous Feminine by Hannah Williams
https://granta.com/the-resurgence-of-the-monstrous-feminine/
On Body Horror and the Monstrosity of Women by Julia Armfield
https://themillions.com/2019/10/on-body-horror-and-the-monstrosity-of-women.html
"HAIRY THUGGISH WOMEN" FEMALE WEREWOLVES, GENDER, AND THE HOPED-FOR MONSTER by Elizabeth M. Clark, B.A.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.905.5547&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Feminist Perspectives on the Body by Kathleen Lennon https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-body/#LiviFemaBody
THE RISE OF THE GIRL-MONSTER PART 1: BIRTH AND BODY by SARA MCCARTNEY
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-rise-of-the-girl-monster-part-1-birth-and-body/
THE RETURN OF THE GIRL-MONSTER – PART 2 by SARA MCCARTNEY
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-return-of-the-girl-monster-part-2/
Raw, Thelma, and the Monstrous Feminine Coming of Age by KYLE LOGAN
https://filmotomy.com/raw-thelma-monstrous-feminine-coming-of-age/
Women & Horror: Female sexuality and monstrosity awakens in Julia Ducournau’s ‘Raw’ by GABRIELLE BONDI
https://www.theyoungfolks.com/film/149694/raw-julia-ducournau-horror/
Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror by Rebecca Harkins-Cross
https://lithub.com/embrace-your-monstrous-flesh-on-womens-bodies-in-horror/
Mechanophilia Exposed and Explained by Mark D. Griffiths Ph.D.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201611/mechanophilia-exposed-and-explained
What Women Inherit: Pregnancy as Body Horror by Natalie Elliott
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/11/15/titane/
Titane — Is It Transphobic? By Mrs. Capricious
https://medium.com/prismnpen/titane-is-it-transphobic-4bda46bc6209
Cross Dressing and Car Fetishes: ‘Titane’ Twists Trans Tropes Into Perverse, Lifeless Body Horror by Jude Dry
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/titane-body-horror-trans-transphobic-1234668724/
NEXT MONTH’S EPISODE ANNOUNCEMENT: Spinster’s Book Club: Max Brook’s Devolution (2020) - Looking at the infamous and elusive cryptid, Bigfoot and the concept of Devolution in the face of survival.
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