Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body

by Frederick Blichert
Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body
  • ISBN-13: 9781773058030
  • Author(s): Frederick Blichert
  • Subject: Popular culture
  • Publisher: Ecw Press
  • Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
  • Publication Date: 04-11-2021
  • Format: Electronic book text

Availability: In stock

£6.99
'<p><b>Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: <i>Jennifer s Body </i>has it all </b></p> <p><b>Featuring an original interview with director Karyn Kusama</b></p> <p>What would be an easy sell in 2021 women at the helm (screenwriter Diablo Cody, director Karyn Kusama), a bankable cast (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried), and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics was a box office flop in 2009. In <i>Extra Salty</i>, Frederick Blichert flips the script on how <i>Jennifer s Body</i> was labeled a failure to celebrate all that is scrumptious (as Jennifer would say) about it: supernatural horror, dark comedy, queer love, and a nuanced handling of gendered violence. The movie could have been to the aughts what <i>Heathers</i> was to the eighties, and it s finally getting its due whether in the flood of tenth-anniversary praise, the parade of Jennifer Hallowee
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'<p><b>Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: <i>Jennifer s Body </i>has it all </b></p> <p><b>Featuring an original interview with director Karyn Kusama</b></p> <p>What would be an easy sell in 2021 women at the helm (screenwriter Diablo Cody, director Karyn Kusama), a bankable cast (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried), and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics was a box office flop in 2009. In <i>Extra Salty</i>, Frederick Blichert flips the script on how <i>Jennifer s Body</i> was labeled a failure to celebrate all that is scrumptious (as Jennifer would say) about it: supernatural horror, dark comedy, queer love, and a nuanced handling of gendered violence. The movie could have been to the aughts what <i>Heathers</i> was to the eighties, and it s finally getting its due whether in the flood of tenth-anniversary praise, the parade of Jennifer Hallowee

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