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We’re taking a closer look at Alasdair Gray and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things! Join us as we discuss socialism, the novel’s ties to Scottish history, and how something can be a great piece of art but a poor adaptation.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
“Making up for Lost Time”: Scotland, Stories, and the Self in Alasdair Gray’s “Poor Things” by Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Insatiable Curiosity: The Real Politics of Poor Things by Mike Small
Thought ‘Poor Things’ was weird? The novel is, too — in a good way. by Michael Dirda
The Voyeuristic Faux-Feminism of Poor Things by Luke Weidemoyer
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde (PDF link)
‘She’s bound and gagged for laughs’: is Poor Things a feminist masterpiece – or an offensive male sex fantasy? by Jess Cartner-Morley
Deviance and the Aesthetic Schema: A Queer(ed) Somaesthetic Analysis of “Poor Things” by Kei Graves
The Baffling Discourse around “Poor Things” by DoctorOfCinema
Viewing Poor Things Through the Eyes of the Feminist Canon by Nicole Fox
How to Build a Feminist by verilybitchie
Poor Things & Alasdair Gray’s Legacy from Ossian
I Loved “Barbie” and “Poor Things” but Neither Film Is a Feminist Masterpiece by Jun Chou
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