In <i>Tropic of Orange</i> (1997), Karen Tei Yamashita builds an expansive narrative on the premise that the Tropic of Cancer shifts mysteriously from its actual latitude, barely north of Mazatl&#225;n, M&#233;xico, to that of L.A.&#8217;s latitude: from 23.43692&#176; north of the Equator to 34.052...

In this essay, I discuss Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 feature film <i>mother!</i> in the context of an intersectional approach to ecofeminism and the American gothic genre. By exploring the histories of ecofeminism, the significances of the ecogothic, and the Puritan origins of American gothic fiction, I...

one of the most important themes of literature and science-fiction is a human meeting with another, foreign matter. The purpose of this meeting not only illustrates the dilemma of anthropogenicism, but also highlights human loneliness vis-à-vis other non-human beings. Both animal studies and the ima...

In the field of art history, critical modes of inquiry prompt the production of new areas of analysis and discovery. Black feminist thought, African art and curatorial history, for instance, offer models for reinterpreting the experiences of hidden and marginalised voices that tend to be overlooked....

The Projector is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of the intersections between media and culture. We are currently seeking essays for our Spring 2011 and Fall 2011 issues. We are particularly interested in scholarship that engages in interdisciplinary analyses of media texts, in...

Medicine uses body fluids for the construction of medical knowledge in the laboratory and at the same time considers them as potentially infectious or dirty. In this model, bodies are in constant need of hygienic discipline if they are to adhere to the ideal of the closed and clean organism without...

In recent years, female action heroes seem to have conquered the world of cinema, partially satisfying the demand for strong female characters that would elude the voyeurism of what Laura Mulvey famously described as “the male gaze.” However, among feminist theorists there has been a great debate on...

Gavin Steingo’s Kwaito’s Promise is an ethnographic monograph that “thinks with” kwaito, a black urban South African electronic popular music with roots in a short-lived period of euphoria surrounding the end of apartheid in the mid-1990s. As the hopefulness of that historical moment was quickly dis...

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnat...

Since 2011, Women Who Rock (WWR) has brought together scholars, archivists, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. The project promotes gene...

In much feminist literatures show that women often have been underneath men power. This study aims to analyze about women representation in film “Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak”. The method is critical discourse to see hidden contexts in this film with a gender perspective. Some scenes show t...

<p class="Moment-Normal">This article discusses the potential of resistance within the popular through an analysis of <em>Mad Max Fury Road</em> from a feminist critical perspective. In order to do this, the paper focuses on genre and action films as a part of a particular narrative and provides a f...

The aim of this work is to examine examples of female roles attributed by society, reproduced through sequences, and show that the media presents sexist stereotypes related to women, and demonstrates that the media offers sexist stereotypes about women and demonstrates that the "parchzed" series of...

From the film Os Cosmonautas (1962) by Victor Lima, a national FC that tells the story of a Brazilian space mission, the analysis highlights two relevant female characters — the scientist Alice (Telma Elita) and the alienator Krina Iris (Neide Aquda). By approaching the film from the problems of gên...

This work analyses the theoretical, social and emotional conceptualisation of love in western culture. A social and cultural construction that has influenced women’s education and life throughout history. The western idea of the ‘Roman love’ has served the various powers to perpetuate a patriarchal...

This paper takes Pride (2014) as a focal point for a discussion of a popular European cinema that looks back on key moments in the twentieth-century political past(s) through the re-enactment of queer scenarios of activism and resistance. My contention is that, as significant as identity politics is...

Since 2011, Women Who Rock (WWR) has brought together scholars, archivists, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. The project promotes gene...