Longer than your average Letterboxd Review

As much as I love Letterboxd, sometimes I want to read a critical movie review that’s not just the best one-liner someone could come up with as the credits roll (I often am guilty of this myself).

One of my college courses was called “Screening the Planetary Crisis” and had a section on the feminist filmmaker Lizzie Borden. I volunteered early on in the semester to present on her work without knowing much about it, but after watching Born In Flames, I knew that’s what I’d focus my research paper on. Not because I thought it was a perfect film by any means, more so because it intrigued me.

Half-research paper, half film review, I don’t know, my professor liked it! Read it if you want (spoilers, though I think that’s implied)!

REFERENCES 

Capper, Beth. 2017. “Domestic Unrest: Social Reproduction and the Temporalities of Struggle in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames.” Third Text 31 (1): 97–116. EBSCOhost. https://doi- org.libproxy.temple.edu/10.1080/09528822.2017.1366410. 

Davis, Angela Y., Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, & Beth E. Richie. 2022. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books. EBSCOhost. 

Hilderbrand, Lucas. 2013. “In the Heat of the Moment: Notes on the Past, Present, and Future of Born in Flames.” Women & Performance 23 (1): 6–16. EBSCOhost. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2013.786340. 

Jaehne, Karen. 1984. Film Quarterly 37 (4): 22–24. JSTOR. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/3697025. 

Parsont, Joanne. "Born in Flames." Frameline, www.frameline.org/films/frameline10/born-in- flames. 

Sensei, Seren. 2017. "Born in Flames." Riot Material, August 10. www.riotmaterial.com/born-in-flames/. Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, n.d. s.v. “intersectionality.” Accessed November 25, 2024. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersectionality.