It is said that McCullers remarked to a cousin about Lee, “Well, honey, one thing we know is that she’s been poaching on my literary preserves.”
Jennifer Gauthier
JENNIFER L. GAUTHIER is a professor of media and culture at Randolph College in Southwestern Virginia. Her media commentary can be found on Pop Matters.com and The Critical Flame: A Journal of Literature and Culture. She has poems published or forthcoming in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, South 85, Gyroscope Review, Nightingale & Swallow, River River, The Bookends Review, little somethings press, and HerWords Magazine. Her poetry collection, naked: a chapbook of poetry inspired by remarkable women, was recently chosen as third runner-up in the New Women’s Voices poetry competition sponsored by Finishing Line Press.
On The Member of the Wedding (and its adaptations) Seventy-Five Years Later
Gina Prince-Bythewood: Feminism Frame by Frame
by Jennifer Gauthier
You might not expect an action film to have drawn Gina Prince-Bythewood’s interest, but she was eager to tackle it.
Feminist Flashback: The Woman’s Film
by Jennifer Gauthier
I can’t remember precisely the first time I saw The Woman’s Film, a collaborative short documentary made by San Francisco Newsreel in 1971, but I do remember being struck by its boldly feminist mode of address and content. It has stuck with me for years and now I use it in class anytime I can. […]
