Tag: Lesbians in film

Thelma and Louise and Everything Since

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|Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns| Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, remarked, “After Thelma and Louise (1991, directed by Ridley Scott), people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t.”¹ So, in 2004 she created The Geena Davis Institute to better understand disparities… Continue reading

Guinevere Turner, American Psycho, and the Effective Distance of Lesbian Cool

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|Sophie Durbin| “Gloria Steinem… as legend would have it, took [Leonardo DiCaprio] to a baseball game and
said, ‘Please don’t do this movie. You’re the biggest movie star in the world right now, and teenage girls are living for you, and I really don’t want them all to run… Continue reading