The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

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The first and only X-rated film to be named best picture was given its certificate from the MPAA for its “depiction of prostitution and homosexuality” – a fact that now seems a relic of its time, not least given the modesty of the film itself by modern standards.

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Brokeback Mountain took a different slant, casting Hollywood’s two best and most cherished young actors as a pair of on-off lovers forced by society into various states of repression, self-loathing and soul-destroying frustration. It may be regarded as a masterpiece now, but on its release in 1960, Michael Powell’s twisted horror movie was met with universal outrage. Maybe cinema audiences – even slasher film audiences – didn’t want to be told that what they were doing might on some level be a bit twisted.It's a bold move and it is to the film's credit that it offers no simple answers to the question, and the coda, in which the two meet up some months later, remains one of the most quietly emotive scenes of recent decades. In one scene Kichiko, the maid, is shown walking down the street while troops march by in the opposite direction.

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A twenty-one-year-old encourages her mother to show off her body and dress provocatively in sMothered. But, certain reservations aside, the key to the film’s success and enduring appeal is the obvious affection in which it holds its central characters.

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Such a simple reading does the film’s all-round cynicism a disservice: Douglas’s protagonist is also insipid, cowardly and weak. Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! Unlike the hastily written straight-to-video fodder to which the high-school sex comedy tended to lend itself, American Pie did not confuse low budget with low quality or bad taste with bad morals and making a twentyfold profit at the cinema alone, it redesigned the template for the raunchy romcom.

But most interesting is the genre’s treatment of women, which in most cases was a straightforward updating of the femme fatale – the unchaste evildoers of film noir – but in some instances was a bit more thoughtful.