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August 18, 2023 • By Lori Marso

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Lori Marso

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Spring Break Forever

On its 10th anniversary, Paul Thompson revisits Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.”...

Going Klear: A Glass Onion Franchise in the Wild

J. D. Connor asks why Netflix spent $450 million to acquire the “Glass Onion” franchise....

Feeling Like a Feminist with Audrey Diwan’s “Happening”

Lori J. Marso uses Simone De Beauvoir and a feminist phenomenological lens to consider Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” a film adapted from the work of Annie Ernaux....

French Cigarettes and a Lot of Coffee: On Skye C. Cleary’s “How to Be Authentic”

Graham weighs the existence, and not the essence, of Cleary’s latest book on how to be authentic by Beauvoir’s measure....

What’s Wrong with Popular Feminism?

Fran Bigman reviews Sarah Banet-Weiser’s new book on popular feminism, “Empowered.”...

Lori Marso is the author of several articles and books, most recently Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Duke, 2017); editor of Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers (Routledge, 2016); and co-editor of Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (Oxford, 2016). She is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York, currently living in New York City, and her new book, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.