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Author: Natalie Wilson

Natalie Wilson is a literature and women’s studies scholar, blogger, and author. She teaches at Cal State San Marcos and specializes in the areas of gender studies, feminism, feminist theory, girl studies, militarism, body studies, boy culture and masculinity, contemporary literature, and popular culture. She is author of the blogs Professor, what if…? and Seduced by Twilight. She also writes the guest columns Monstrous Musings for the Womanist Musings blog and Pop Goes Feminism at Girl with Pen. She is currently writing a book examining the contemporary vampire craze from a feminist perspective. Dr. Wilson is also part of the collaborative research group that publishes United States Military Violence Against Women and is currently working on an investigative piece on militarized sexual violence perpetuated against civilians. She is a proud feminist parent of two feminist kids and is an admitted pop-culture junkie. Her favorite food is chocolate. Visit her online at NatalieWilsonPhd.
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The Lesbian Gaze of “Carol”

Natalie Wilson

I concur with Sasha Stone that Carol is “one of the most important films of the year.” Its gaze is one worth returning.

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While Heartfelt, “The Danish Girl” Recycles Tired Trans Tropes

Natalie Wilson

The Danish Girl takes the “touchy” subject of transgender artist Lili Elbe’s life and renders it into a beautifully artistic film. However, rather than unraveling the complexities of transgender identity, the […]

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Final “Hunger Games” Film Ends on a Low Note, But JLaw Still Soars

Natalie Wilson

Mockingjay — Part 2, the final film of The Hunger Games series, is more of an action flick than any of the other iterations. Yet, thanks to its condemnation of […]

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Guillermo Goes Gothic in the Grrrl-Powered Crimson Peak

Natalie Wilson

WARNING: SPOILERS Forget the phallic-tongued vampires populating The Strain and go for the sumptuously Gothic Crimson Peak. As with Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is a woman-centered and driven narrative brimming with claustrophobic imagery and red-hued horror. While Pan’s Labyrinth incorporated fairytale […]

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Freeheld Beautifully Captures the Notion that “Love Is Love”

Natalie Wilson

Love is forged in small moments. Like ragged bits of bottles polished into sea glass, Freeheld‘s lead characters, Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) and Stacie Andree (Ellen Page), are rugged and tough, tumbled […]

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Why You MUST See Mad Max This Weekend

Natalie Wilson

A version of this article originally appeared on Skirt Collective Much has been made of the call by Aaron Clarey in his piece “Why You Should Not Go See ‘Mad Max: Feminist Road.’” […]

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How Ex Machina Fails to be Radical

Natalie Wilson

Reprinted with permission from Skirt Collective I am going to admit: Ex Machina profoundly disturbed me—so much so that at one point I had to leave the theatre and catch […]

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Are Divergents Feminists in Disguise?

Natalie Wilson

Last year the first film of the Divergent series made close to $200 million, putting it almost in league with The Hunger Games. While the latter dystopian trilogy, featuring the […]

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“The Lazarus Effect” Is No “Frankenstein”

Natalie Wilson

The Lazarus Effect focuses on reviving the dead—hardly a new concept—and few texts have done as well as Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein. The Lazarus Effect is no Frankenstein, but, as […]

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“It Follows”: A Horror Film That Doesn’t Blame the Victim for Having Sex

Natalie Wilson

It Follows has an uncanny eye for detail, using jump cuts, long takes and a heavy musical score to build a horror/arthouse film that suggests very ominous things about sexuality, […]

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