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- Harron is a prolific advocate for women’s rights and it isn’t hard to see the influence that this has had on her work. Her films The Notorious Bettie Page, Charlie Says and American Psycho deal with how culture’s framing of women can lead to dehumanization and even violence.
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Harron has been at times labelled a feminist filmmaker, in part due to her film on lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas, I Shot Andy Warhol, as well as a lesbian storyline within her 2011 teenage Gothic horror film The Moth Diaries (2011). [18]
Apr 29, 2014 · In a recent interview with The Believer, Harron was asked how she felt about being labeled as a feminist filmmaker. Harron acknowledges the debt she owes to feminism, but states that she finds the label “marginalizing.”
Apr 13, 2020 · In 1996, Harron was hot off the back of her critically acclaimed debut I Shot Andy Warhol, which premiered that year at the Cannes Film Festival and told the story of the radical lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas' attempted murder of the Pop Art's founding father.
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Aug 19, 2014 · When Christian Bale peeled back his herb-mint face mask to reveal his chainsaw-wielding proclivities as a serial killer in Mary Harron's American Psycho, America froze. It certainly was not a feminist comedy that the naysayers and boycotters had expected.
Apr 22, 2020 · When producers heard she wanted to make a movie about Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who shot Warhol, they were disturbed. In her infamous SCUM Manifesto, Solanas had advocated killing...
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Jun 8, 2016 · Read This: How Mary Harron made a feminist film out of American Psycho. Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho has become an enduring cult classic, with the...
American Psycho is part of Harron’s “feminist project” that started with I Shot Andy Warhol, a fictionalized account of the life of radical feminist Valerie Solanas. 13 In American Psycho, Harron used its depictions of 1980s neoliberal yuppie culture to explore the evolution of violent masculinity in recent American cinema.
