Abstract
Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria explicitly and implicitly incorporates two connected myths, witchcraft and goddess centered matriarchal prehistory. The fact that each of these myths have been claimed by feminists in myriad ways may explain Guadagnino’s claim that Suspiria is a great feminist film that escapes the male gaze. In this article, I argue that Guadagnino’s representation of these myths lays bare their misogynistic origins and perpetuates, rather than subverts, patriarchal power structures.
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Macumber, Lindsay
(2024)
"Radically Feminist or Monstrously Feminine?: Witches and Goddesses in Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018),"
Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 28:
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1, Article 63.
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https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol28/iss1/63
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