Gilda (dir. Charles Vidor, 1946): The tagline read, “Was there ever a woman like Gilda?” Indeed. Upon a more recent viewing of this long-been favorite, it appears much less textbook…
It would be very easy to see It Happened One Night only through the spectacles of conventional gender theory (yawn). This kind of interpretation would blab about male superiority, female…
Like the previous entry on Pan’s Labyrinth, Gilda is another film that is all about sight. But that’s about where the similarities end. More specifically, Gilda contains heavy traces of…