Jo Isaacson

Book cover with green text of Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

Contents page of Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

The first copy of my monograph 'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' arrived and it's beautiful! I'm so proud. Thank you @uniwalespress.bsky.social

Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director of perhaps the greatest feminist film ever made: Born in Flames (1983), a unique, gritty, exp…

RIP to the great Teresa de Lauretis. I loved her work, including a little-known piece on the film Born In Flames, which I got to interact with in this piece blindfieldjournal.com/2019/08/14/h...

Blue Sky cut me off after halftime. Totally fair :)

Don't trust the skeptical owl. This movie is headed toward a happy ending!

The new farm is going to fix everything!

But just trust me, everything is going well

I don't think my comments are getting posted anymore, which is probably for the best..

Phew, they got to the new farm. Everything's going to be great now!

3 cheers for the ambient sound tho

Oh good, they're moving. We're definitely heading toward a happy ending now. Things are looking up!

Never has another film captured the sadness of doing things or not doing things so well, she says after watching a man packing a suitcase for 15 minutes.

Nothing like grabbing handfuls of money from a child's bier

Kids don't do capitalism. You will both sell the farm and buy the farm.

Just hit cocktail hour. Apologies in advance.

After another chili dog break we're debating whether the film is playing or paused.

And then suddenly overwhelmed by the beauty of prose about spider webs. This film.

The Ratatouille spaghetti kiss, but with a sandwich and in slow, slow, slow motion

10 minute lugubrious 360 pan of bar filled with passed-out patrons. Accordion music accompanying.

That super annoying drunk guy at the bar that will outlast us all.

Thank you Bad Bunny for reminding me joy exists. And now a radical tone shift.

Half time! I trust Bad Bunny to be nice to all cats.

My partner who studies East Germany has taught me that all post-socialist films have a dance scene. But this may be the longest and drunkest.

The only person we identify with is the guy drinking brandy and balancing a cheese roll on his head. For as long as people do things in this film.

The only character we identify with is the guy drinking brandy and balancing a cheese roll on his head. For as long as people do things in this film.

And don't even ask me what they'll do to your cat

Kids, don't do capitalism. Their money trees don't work and they'll take your onions.

I thought someone was going to get to eat a cheese roll but that was too optimistic.

Team dirt was just a decoy.

I think I was wrong all along. The teams are mud v. humanity. And we know who is winning.

Aaaand now we're puking with the pigs. Team mud!