Crying Spells
Mel Zog₊✩‧₊ media analysis, cultural politics, and self-reflections for the gilded age ₊✩‧₊
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Give Girls Their Subjectivity Back! Now!
In this essay I’ll discuss Pretty Little Liars, American Beauty, Miller’s Girl and The Crush with (what I consider) minor spoilers — but I’ll also discuss the book Half His Age in more details, so feel free to skip the last section i...
The Homoeroticism of Female Rivalry
So.. I made my first ever video essay.
I wrote about the underlying homoeroticism of rivalry in media, particularly for women, and made it into a video:
I thought a lot about how to bring this piece of work to you. At first I tried writin...
Watching Pretty Boys (Play With Each Other)
This is an essay on the appeal of Heated Rivalry to female audiences, or more specifically, the appeal of male-on-male erotica in the context of competition and high-pressure environments. I'll discuss Challengers, Heated Rivalry, an...
Hidden in Plain Sight
This essay contains spoilers for the movies Midsommar, Strange Darling and Weapons - I’ll flag the spoiler-heavy sections as we go
What is the role of horror movies besides cheap thrills from the comfort of a couch? If we bel...
The Summer I Was Desired
What is romance if not the ultimate realm of fantasy? I find it fascinating that two phenomena have been happening in parallel for as long as the genre has existed: the realm of romance gets scrutinized and its moral grounds questioned (eg:...
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