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I wrote:
—about director Alice Guy-Blaché’s wonderful Madame Has Her Cravings, and the naturalness and unnaturalness of pregnancy.
—on the second episode of Twin Peaks and camp utopia.
—some notes for an intro on Alice Guy-Blaché.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Quartz I wrote about Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s The Perils of Privilege, and the pros and cons of privilege call outs.
At Random Nerds I wrote about Beyoncé at the CMAs and racism in country music.
At Splice Today I wrote about
—Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, which doesn’t find any women on the road.
—Laura Agustín’s The Three-Headed Dog, a novel that punctures trafficking myths.
I liked the piece about Beyonce and country music. I’ve been thinking a lot about race and country music recently as I have a strong love of fifties rock n roll. I find that singers like Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran are often classified as rockabilly but Chuck Berry isn’t, which doesn’t make much sense to me as Cochran and Vincent strike me as much more influenced by blues than hillbilly music, and vice versa for Berry (though as you point out in the piece, early blues and hillbilly music are pretty much indistinguishable).