Patricia White is the Eugene Lang Research Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College and the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1999) and Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (2015). She serves on the board of the non-profit feminist media arts organization Women Make Movies and the editorial collective of the feminist film journal Camera Obscura. Her article “Sketchy Lesbians: Carol as History and Fantasy” can be found in the Winter 2015 issue of Film Quarterly.
Patricia White
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A Handmaiden’s Tale
A hit at this year’s Cannes film festival and when it opened in Korea over the summer, The Handmaiden (Ah-ga-ssi) is now in limited release. This stylish and twisty Korean thriller remains true to the oeuvre of its director, revenge-plot master Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, 2003; Lady Vengeance, 2005), and to its source text, the novel […]
A Lesbian “Carol” for Christmas
As we approach the crest of film awards season frenzy, Carol, Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, still in limited release, has captured the imagination of critics like no lesbian-themed movie before it. Named best film of 2015 by the New York Film Critics Circle, it comes in at […]
