Fashion Is the Loose Thread in the ‘Barbie’ Movie’s Pink Armor
The pink fashion in the Barbie movie may seem like feminism, but if you squint deeper into the pinkwashing, you’ll spot some loose threads that you just have to pull.
William Cordeiro
Will Cordeiro has cultural criticism appearing or forthcoming in CutBank, DIAGRAM, The Journal of Fandom Studies, The Smart Set, Terrain.org, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Will received his MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University and co-edits the small press Eggtooth Editions.
The Last Laugh: Everything You Think You Know About ‘Joker’ Is Wrong
Todd Phillips plants a tantalizing trail of clues throughout Joker whose contradictory structure causes as much mayhem as its titular character.
‘Groundhog Day’ and Iterations Toward a Theory of the (Third) Wheel: Or, Larry the Cameraman
No matter what Bill Murray’s Phil Connors does in Groundhog Day, it’s Larry the cameraman who holds the power to make or break him.