Hag Horror: Older Women in Film
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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What Happened to Baby Jane?
Whatever happened to baby Jane really came out at the same time when there was more sort of violence in cinema, or there was a need to have more violence in cinema. People wanted to see horror. Television was taking audiences away from the cinema. So filmmakers wanted to create films with more difficult subjects. And I think also what's happening now is we're still seeing, because of the feminists, the rights and feminism over the last few years, there's a backlash against it. You kind of see that all comes back in cycles really, doesn't it? And we kind of seeing this. It does.
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