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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 3d

#filmsky two bonus #twincinemamovieclub pairings coming up:

1) del Toro's Frankenstein in theaters this weekend + Haifaa Al-Mansour's biopic Mary Shelley (2017) on #kanopy
2) Lanthimos's Bugonia in theaters next weekend + the film it's based on Save the Green Planet (2003) also on #kanopy

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 16h

What a nightmare ☹️ wasps are such assholes

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 20h

Androids are on subject! But no I have not.

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 20h

#frankenstein Wollstonecraft argued that women were not objects but subjects, rational beings w souls, cogito ergo sum etc. Shelley’s monster transforms from object to subject, like its android descendants, raising existential questions about who gets subjecthood & who is mere object

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Tom Allman 🏴 @yoohootom.bsky.social · 1d

My classic sci-fi bookclub is woke and 50% women. The #1 off-topic is Star Trek. The amount of copium that old white dudes ingest is astounding. Boo Hoo, Bob!

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

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two Giant Freakin' Robot articles side by side; left side is titled "Most Trekkies Are Republicans, Star Trek Can Embrace It Or Die" by Joshua Tyler, updated 2 days ago, with an image of the Enterprise and DS9 crews undergoing inspection in DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations" with excerpt: "Star Trek has always had a specific audience, and it has never had much appeal outside that group. Now it's a group the franchise seems to hate, and it's doing everything it can to drive them away. To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star..."; right side is titled "Walk Away From Media That No Longer Serves You" by Robert Scucci, published 26 minutes ago, with image of a woman turning her face and holding a hand to a bright screen, with excerpt: "There's nothing more frustrating than watching someone refuse to walk away from media that no longer serves them. Grey's Anatomy is in its 23rd season. My wife has been hanging on since Season 16, tuning in each week, hoping it will 'get good again.'"

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

here is my Substack essay about Romanticism and science, including a section about #frankenstein and Percy Shelley's chemistry experiments. Frankenstein (1931) is featured in Twisters (2024) #filmsky

Romanticizing "Twister"
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Romanticizing "Twister"

Gothic horror, trauma, and the weather

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

forgot to mention, its free to stream w your library card on @kanopy.com !!

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#frankenstein Joanna Russ: "Every robot, every android, every sentient computer...every non-biological person...is a descendent of that 'mighty figure' Shelley dreamed one rainy night in the summer of 1816..."

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

currently watching Haifaa Al-Mansour's Mary Shelley (2017). It falls into the usual biopic traps, but makes Mary's world tangible. Elle Fanning projects both naivete & intelligence. Al-Mansour was the first Saudi woman to direct a feature (Wadjda 2012) #filmsky #frankenstein #moviesbeforebreakfast

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CMA: African Art @cmaafrican.bsky.social · 1d

Leopard Caryatid Stool https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.138

Bead-covered wooden stools and thrones are one of the most prevalent art forms among the various kingdoms and chiefdoms in the Cameroon grasslands. This example, once part of the royal treasury, belongs in the category of "travel stools," usually used in conjunction with more private, minor ceremonies and rituals at the palace. The leopard imagery confirms the object’s royal status. It alludes to the belief that the king was able to temporarily transform himself into this feared predator.

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Stunning!

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 1d

if you're interested in Ellen Moers's essay on Mary Shelley, the Gothic mode, and "women's mythmaking" it's linked here: knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/moe...

Moers, "Female Gothic"

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein Moers: "Death & birth were...as hideously intermixed in the life of Mary Shelley as in Frankenstein's 'workshop of filthy creation.'" "Most of the novel...can be said to deal w the retribution visited upon monster & creator for deficient infant care."

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein Ellen Moers points out that most women authors of the time were unmarried & childless i.e. had limited experience w birth/infancy, & also there was a taboo against depicting sex & birth. Moers: "[Shelley] brought birth to fiction not as realism but as Gothic fantasy..."

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein the birth of horror was MATERNITY horror, and the birth of scifi was FEMINIST scifi

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein but it’s not just a fable about god & man. Frankenstein’s monster is motherless, & he resents his creator for abandoning him. & Frankenstein is haunted by guilt & horror at the miserable life he’s created. Feelings MS must have felt about her own mother & baby

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

My opinion of it has evolved with me as I’ve grown up and also read more sci-fi, especially feminist sci-fi!

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

I still have the copy I read as a young teen back in the late 1900s #frankenstein “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” Frankenstein’s monster is an angry teenager

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein as a bookish teenager w big feelings (ie undiagnosed mental illness), I read & loved Frankenstein. I related to the monster's feelings of isolation, alienation, resentment, his big questions about why he is cursed w life & how to live when you're a hideous freak. Ah adolescence

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein Mary was already a Romantic bookish teenage goth girl w big feelings. Per Joanna Russ, she was "a woman who...was not only constitutionally melancholy but had good reason to be."

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein Also Percy was getting it on w her stepsister while she was pregnant. Mary believed in free love but that was some unethical nonmonogamy. Percy's wife (yeah he was still married to someone else) gave birth to a healthy baby boy around the same time. Ugh Percy 🙄 why are men

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein At 17, Mary gave birth to a daughter, but the baby was born 2 months premature, & died at 2 weeks old. Mary fell into a deep depression & was haunted by visions of her baby. Which, like, fair!

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein Mary Jr ran off w Romantic poet Percy Shelley at 16. Her father was pissed & cut her off. They lived together unmarried & poor, reading widely & constantly (novels, poetry, philosophy, politics, sciences) & even kept a shared journal

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

😂 I would totally watch the cat in a wooly jumper solving crimes w the milkman

Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

I Survived the Criterion Flash Sale and spent under $200 🥇🎖️🏆 thank you 🙏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Devon Coffee @devoncoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#frankenstein fun fact: when they were dating, Mary & Percy Shelley would hang out at Mary's mother's grave. also Mary Shelley's maiden name was her mother's name: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, i.e. the name on the headstone at her favorite date spot

Mary Shelley was the original goth girl

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