The Search For Feminism In Male Film Favourites

One Saturday evening, my dad and I were sat on the couch, finally watching Top Gun. For the first time ever it was me falling asleep on the couch instead of him. While the film was not entertaining enough to keep me awake, I still enjoyed the bits I saw, and the way it feels like a love letter to bromances.

Emma Xerri returns with her column this month where she dissects the representation of the female characters in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’. The characters here fair a lot better than in her previous two analyses which looked at ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.

Emma Xerri unpacks the problematic depictions of women and the misogynistic traits of male characters in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, her newest column piece for ‘The Search For Feminism in Male Film Favourites’.

Emma Xerri will be undergoing her own hero’s journey—dissecting the most commonly beloved films by those of the male sex—in her Fodder Blog column titled ‘The Search For Feminism in Male Film Favourites’.