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1970s feminist films
Riddles of the Sphinx
Mulvey's readings of the myth of Oedipus and the sphinx are layered atop 360ยบ panning shots of various locales; the protagonist appears in elliptically-edited sequences.
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Such Good Friends
Julie Messinger is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wr...
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Fear in the Night
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for a...
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Day of the Woman
After a young writer is brutally gang-raped and left for dead by four men, she systematically hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance.
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Hungry Wives
Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, middle-aged suburban housewife with an uncommunicative businessman husband and a distant 19 year old daughter on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her cu...
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