Tag: Barbara Stanwyck
There’s Only One Way to Release Guilt in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
What is it to want love so badly you’ll go to obscene, self-destructive lengths to get it? Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson/Barbara Stanwyck)–who frequently expresses a [Read More…]
Phyllis Thinks She’s Hot Shit Because She’s A Sociopath, Or: Double Indemnity & The Two-Dimensional Femme Fatale
Billy Wilder wasn’t exactly known for creating complex female characters, more predisposed instead to focusing on his male heroes and/or their buddy dynamic (which was [Read More…]
The Lady Eve & Men’s Fear of Sluts
Regardless of women being “liberated” during the time of World War Two, when men were forced to “allow” them to do “masculine” tasks like work [Read More…]
