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07-08-2018, 08:18 PM
'Sharp Objects' is a must-watch subversion of the Dead Girl trope
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We are a culture obsessed with dead girls — so much so that the trope is now a wildly popular sub-genre (https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/evkavz/dead-girls-book-alice-bolin).
The misogyny of Dead Girl narratives (https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/twin-peaks/dead-girls-on-tv) is evident in recent additions like Twin Peaks, True Detective, 13 Reasons Why, The Night Of, and countless others. Most use the corpses of beautiful young women as a vehicle for the growth of male characters.*
And that's just the surface-level issue.
SEE ALSO: Amazon's 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' is a haunting portrait of womanhood (https://mashable.com/2018/05/30/picnic-at-hanging-rock-amazon-natalie-dormer-review/)
I myself am guilty of an irresistible attraction to the Dead Girl genre. But I've always been baffled by its failure to engage with the reality and trauma of everyday violence against women.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/08/sharp-objects-hbo-review/)
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We are a culture obsessed with dead girls — so much so that the trope is now a wildly popular sub-genre (https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/evkavz/dead-girls-book-alice-bolin).
The misogyny of Dead Girl narratives (https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/twin-peaks/dead-girls-on-tv) is evident in recent additions like Twin Peaks, True Detective, 13 Reasons Why, The Night Of, and countless others. Most use the corpses of beautiful young women as a vehicle for the growth of male characters.*
And that's just the surface-level issue.
SEE ALSO: Amazon's 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' is a haunting portrait of womanhood (https://mashable.com/2018/05/30/picnic-at-hanging-rock-amazon-natalie-dormer-review/)
I myself am guilty of an irresistible attraction to the Dead Girl genre. But I've always been baffled by its failure to engage with the reality and trauma of everyday violence against women.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/08/sharp-objects-hbo-review/)
More about Entertainment (https://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Hbo (https://mashable.com/category/hbo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Amy Adams (https://mashable.com/category/amy-adams/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gone Girl (https://mashable.com/category/gone-girl/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Big Little Lies (https://mashable.com/category/big-little-lies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/0jHFQnFinoo