Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death

Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death

Looks at the proto-feminist call for personal redemption and critique of patriarchal forces in the voice recordings of a 1960s wife and mother in the experimental Gothic documentary Must Read After My Death. The essay situates Dews' film's critical power within the Gothic mode's willi...

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Main Author: Papagena Robbins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Montreal Monstrum Society 2019-06-01
Series:Monstrum
Subjects:
Gothic documentary
gothumentary
Must Read After My Death
proto-feminism
feminist horror
documentary
self-writing
archive
patriarchy
1960s
home movies
Gothic
Online Access:https://www.monstrum-society.ca/uploads/4/1/7/5/41753139/robbins_-_must_read_-_monstrum_2.pdf
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Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
Monstrum
Gothic documentary
gothumentary
Must Read After My Death
proto-feminism
feminist horror
documentary
self-writing
archive
patriarchy
1960s
home movies
Gothic
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title Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
title_short Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
title_full Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
title_fullStr Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
title_full_unstemmed Suburban Ghost Story: Pre-feminist Self Writing Practices and the Gothic in Must Read After My Death
title_sort suburban ghost story: pre-feminist self writing practices and the gothic in must read after my death
publisher Montreal Monstrum Society
series Monstrum
issn 2561-5629
publishDate 2019-06-01
description Looks at the proto-feminist call for personal redemption and critique of patriarchal forces in the voice recordings of a 1960s wife and mother in the experimental Gothic documentary Must Read After My Death. The essay situates Dews' film's critical power within the Gothic mode's willingness to expose the "key epistemological impasses around the auto/biographical, female agency, and the evidentiary mediums themselves."
topic Gothic documentary
gothumentary
Must Read After My Death
proto-feminism
feminist horror
documentary
self-writing
archive
patriarchy
1960s
home movies
Gothic
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