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Eileen G'Sell

Eileen G'Sell is a regular contributor to Salon, VICE, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. In 2019 she was nominated for the Rabkin prize in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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A Film That Tests Assumptions About Race, Rape, and Power

by Eileen G'Sell March 6, 2021March 5, 2021

“Test Pattern” chronicles a biracial courtship and coupledom as a means of probing larger power asymmetries.

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9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History

by Eileen G'Sell February 20, 2021February 19, 2021

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, women office workers banded together in a labor movement that sprouted up in 25 cities across the country.

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Two Dramas Plumb the Depths of Women’s Midlife Chaos

by Eileen G'Sell February 6, 2021February 9, 2021

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time and My Little Sister are complicated films about complicated people.

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Pieces of a Woman Falls to Pieces

by Eileen G'Sell January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

What begins as a trenchant exploration of losing a child becomes a Lifetime-esque affair that strays so sharply from a mother’s grief that it feels a bit like a betrayal.

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When Class Conflict Met Queer Romance

by Eileen G'Sell November 28, 2020November 28, 2020

Ammonite tells a 19th-century love story that prompts less a tingle through the loins than a chill down the spine.

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A David Wojnarowicz Documentary Honors the Gritty, Glorious Chaos of His Life

by Eileen G'Sell November 14, 2020September 15, 2021

In Wojnarowicz’s work, as in his life, testing the limits of artistic categories and systemic and institutional power was central to his impassioned vision.

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A Woman Escapes the Grip of Men in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

by Eileen G'Sell October 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Director Charlie Kaufman’s men leech off women for validation, while women attempt to escape their parasitic grip.

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Wacky, Romantic Dramedies to Brighten a Foreboding Fall

by Eileen G'Sell October 17, 2020November 5, 2020

Three recent French dramedies boast their own individual je ne sais quoi, less in spite than because of their wacky storylines.

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Relic Joins the New Era of “Mommy Horror”

by Eileen G'Sell August 15, 2020November 5, 2020

Relic delves into a darkness beyond filial caregiving, approaching the mother figure as the first, and last, monster, her house a veritable womb for distinctly female trauma.

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Photos That Honor the Interior Lives of Diverse Black Women

by Eileen G'Sell July 25, 2020November 5, 2020

In her photographs, Katherine Simóne Reynolds suggests that vulnerability is vital to a full sense of self, but it is a luxury that Black women across age and background are perpetually denied.

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A John Lewis Documentary Probes Tensions Between National and State Power

by Eileen G'Sell July 4, 2020November 5, 2020

For any American even mildly ignorant of the rich, complex legacy of Civil Rights within our decidedly disunited country, Dawn Porter’s John Lewis: Good Trouble should be mandatory viewing.

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The Delirium of Female Desire

by Eileen G'Sell June 6, 2020November 5, 2020

Across Josephine Decker’s work and in her new film about Shirley Jackson, Decker wants us to ask what right she, or anyone, has to make another’s story her own.

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