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Crying Spells

Mel Zog

₊✩‧₊ Crying Spells is a media and cultural theory project that looks at how identity and desire get constructed and reflected back ₊✩‧₊

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Latest Issues

Imagining the End of Loneliness: Horror & the Collective Body

Or: How I learned to keep calm and love the merge.

I made a new video essay about ‘collective horror,’ and our contradictory need for proximity and individuality:

A few months ago, a friend came over to help me build a piece of furniture....

2 months ago
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The most erotic thing a man can do is wait

Light spoilers ahead for Mad Men, Past Lives and Eternity

I’m not a bad person, but I have thought of doing bad things.

Sometimes, I regret not using the innocence granted to early mistakes more often. I regret not acting on...

2 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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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...

5 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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