When the Woman Writes: Screenwriting, Censorship and Style in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

2025/01/02 by Alison Peirse · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Cinema and Media Studies #Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/10509208.2024.2410528

Abstract

In 1984, Linda Williams published “When the Woman Looks,” a psychoanalytic account of the woman character’s look at the monster in the horror film. Williams argued that the woman’s look “offers at ...

Discussions

• If a woman writes a horror film, does it become a "crime thriller"? Alison Peirse researches an overlooked screenwriter, Lucille Fletcher, and her film SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948). Read it #openaccess [bsky, 13 points, 1 comments]

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