Sara Freeman
Feminist Film Theorist Extraordinaire
Portfolio
As a film lover and devout feminist, my main goal in life is to make the world, cinematic or otherwise, a better place for women to live in. I review and analyze films from a feminist perspective in order illuminate the positive and negative sides of the industry. Though my own personal tastes generally gravitate toward the classic sensations of the golden age of Hollywood, I am also skilled in theorizing contemporary culture, especially when I'm able to relate it back to the old days and the old stars.
Here are some examples of my work, which includes essays, reviews, and interviews.
FEATURES
Bitch Magazine
Sadie Magazine
Feminist Review
In Review Online
COLUMNS
Blogging on film from a feminist perspective for Today's Chicago Woman and their section of ChicagoNow.
In Review Onl
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- Introduction
- Wonder Woman (2009, Lauren Montgomery)
BOOKS
The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture (Facts on File, Contributing Writer) - Forthcoming
- Entry on Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
- Entry on Jane Fonda (Actress, 1937-present)
- Bright Star (2009, Jane Campion) - Fall 2009
- Boy Interrupted (2009, Dana Heinz Perry) - Summer 2009
- White on Rice (2009, Dave Boyle) - Summer 2009
- Revolutionary Road (2008, Sam Mendes) - Winter 2008
- Four Minutes (2006, Chris Kraus) - Fall 2008
- Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore) - Fall 2009 (cross-posted in In Review Online)
- Spring Breakdown (2008, Ryan Shiraki) - Fall 2009
- Woman in Berlin (2008, Max Farberbock) - Spring 2009
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008, Marina Zenovich) - Winter 2008
- Amelia (2009, Mira Nair) - Fall 2009
- Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore) - Fall 2009 (cross-posted in Sadie magazine)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) - Summer 2009
BOOK REVIEWS
Feminist Review
- Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited by Molly Haskell - Summer 2009
- Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor - Winter 2008
- The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick - Winter 2008
- Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest by Catherine Goldhammer - Fall 2008
- Women's Studies on the Edge (Edited by Joan Wallach Scott) - Fall 2008
VARIOUS
- Bitch List, Asia Argento - Winter 2008, Noir issue
- Bitch List, Louise Brooks - Fall 2008, Loud issue
SELECTED BLOG POSTS
- Review of Death Proof - Summer 2009
- From Jungle Red to White Bread: The Women (1939) to The Women (2008) - Spring 2009
- Summertime Flicks - Summer 2008
- She Did it the Hard Way: Bette Davis - Spring 2008
CONFERENCES
- 2nd Annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Studies Conference - Spring 2008
Paper Presented: Max Ophuls' Diary of the Dead: The Haunting Romanticism of Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Paper I'm going to present: His Girl Doomsday: The Professionalism of Lilah Morgan
LECTURES
- Picturing Women in the '60s (Columbia College, Jeff Smith) - Spring 2009
Lectured on: Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Valley of the Dolls (1967)
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