8 with 2015’s "Ex Machina," which will be shown with a featurette of trailers on the theme of “Beauty and the Beast.” The series, which runs through April, is free and open to the public. The ongoing series (three films remain) picks up again on Feb. Kohn, a PhD candidate in film and visual studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has curated a film series on “Feminism and the Fairy Tale” for the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. While feminism has long mined fables and folk tales for both archetypes and answers, filmmakers have done the same to create arresting heroines and villains, along with strong characters who straddle the line.Ĭiting these tales as “magic mirrors” for our unseen selves, Katie B. Witches and plucky girls, princesses and vampires: In fairy tales, at least, females have power.
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