Tag: reception

  • Female-Driven Films: Reception and Impact of ROUGH NIGHT

    Female-Driven Films: Reception and Impact of ROUGH NIGHT

    The movie Rough Night follows the reunion of five friends who get together to have a bachelorette party. Jess (Scarlett Johansson) is getting married, and a fun night away in Miami with her friends is exactly what she needs to take her focus off of a stressful state senate campaign. But the celebration is cut…

  • Real Monsters and Real Disgust: Comparing Reception of FREAKS and FRANKENSTEIN

    Real Monsters and Real Disgust: Comparing Reception of FREAKS and FRANKENSTEIN

    INTRODUCTION Scholarship surrounding Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) mostly includes discussion about public perception of disability. This discussion is certainly warranted, but I am hesitant to place sole responsibility for the film’s poor reception on said perception. Indeed, to place such emphasis on viewer attitudes about disability is to ignore systematic exploitation and “othering” of disabled…