Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body

Frederick Blichert

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: Jennifer's Body has it all What would be an easy sell in 2021 -- women at the helm , a bankable cast , and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics -- was a box office flop in 2009. In Extra Salty, Frederick Blichert flips the script on how Jennifer's Body was labeled a failure to celebrate all that is scrumptious about it: supernatural horror, dark comedy, queer love, and a nuanced handling of gendered violence. The movie could have been to the aughts what Heathers was to the eighties, and it's finally getting its due -- whether in the flood of tenth-anniversary praise, the parade of Jennifer Halloween costumes, or Halsey's nod to it on her platinum-selling album. With insight into the genre's cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer's Body as a cult classic.

Format: Paperback

Publisher: ECW Press

Release: October 05, 2021

ISBN: 1770415890

ISBN 13: 9781770415898

Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body

Frederick Blichert

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: Jennifer's Body has it all What would be an easy sell in 2021 -- women at the helm , a bankable cast , and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics -- was a box office flop in 2009. In Extra Salty, Frederick Blichert flips the script on how Jennifer's Body was labeled a failure to celebrate all that is scrumptious about it: supernatural horror, dark comedy, queer love, and a nuanced handling of gendered violence. The movie could have been to the aughts what Heathers was to the eighties, and it's finally getting its due -- whether in the flood of tenth-anniversary praise, the parade of Jennifer Halloween costumes, or Halsey's nod to it on her platinum-selling album. With insight into the genre's cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer's Body as a cult classic.

Format: Paperback

Publisher: ECW Press

Release: October 05, 2021

ISBN: 1770415890

ISBN 13: 9781770415898

More books from Frederick Blichert

Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity

Serenity

Extra Salty: Jennifer’s Body (Pop Classics Book 11)

Rate this book!

Write a review?