The 9/11 Girlboss (feat. Vita Breva)

Fruitless

Horror month continues! This week, Vita Breva (@vitabreva) joins Jackal and Josiah to discuss Jennifer's Body (2009). We discuss the movie's poor contemporary reception and later reappraisal, the film's exploration of feminism, sexuality, and the post-911 era, the attempted character assassination of Megan Fox, as well as Vita's Girardian read on the film.

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References

• Vita's review of Jennifer's Body (2009), https://letterboxd.com/vitabreva/film/jennifers-body/1/
• "The Passion of the Christ (2004)," Girls, Guts, and Giallo, https://www.patreon.com/posts/passion-of-2004-84479521
• "The Wicker Man (1973)," Girls, Guts, and Giallo, https://www.patreon.com/posts/wicker-man-1973-108827516
• "We've all been pronouncing Amanda Seyfried wrong," Glamour, https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/amanda-seyfried-prononuciation
• "When Michael Bay Degraded Megan Fox—Then Tried to Sabotage Her Career," Marlow Stern in the Daily Beast, https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-michael-bay-degraded-megan-foxthen-tried-to-sabotage-her-career/
• "Michael Bay's Crew Bitchslaps Megan Fox," Nikki Finke in Deadline, https://deadline.com/2009/09/transformers-crew-talk-back-to-megan-fox-15879/
• "'I Eat Boys': Monstrous Femininity in Jennifer's Body," Victoria Santamaría Ibor in Babel AFIAL, PDF, https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/article/download/4301/3375
• "Popular girl goes bad, begins to devour teen flesh," Roger Ebert, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jennifers-body-2009
• "How Jennifer’s Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today," Constance Grady in Vox, https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/31/18037996/jennifers-body-flop-cult-classic-feminist-horror
• "The life, death, and rebirth of Jennifer’s Body, according to screenwriter Diablo Cody," Emily St. James in Vox, https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-interesting/2018/11/10/18080168/jennifers-body-diablo-cody-interview-reborn

Music & audio credits

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Through the Trees - Low Shoulder
• Yesterday – bloom.

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