Gazing Back: Female Desire at the Movies
Katie: We want to share a conversation we’ve been having over the past few months, a conversation about film, women, and desire. It started as we sat in an air-conditioned theater this summer, seeing a “guilty pleasure” movie we had joked about: Magic Mike XXL. As we watched this story of male entertainers travelling to Tampa for a stripper convention-- a sequel to 2012’s surprise hit Magic Mike-- we joined in the audience’s laughter and cheers. Anne: Afterward you pointed ou