Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Second Estate Food Is For Everyone (Or Should Be): Délicieux
As far as French history goes, one never tires of the approaches that can be taken in exploring the French Revolution. A phenomenon not really [Read More…]
Cold War Stereotypes Renewed: GLOW and the Russian Supervillain
American pop culture has always had a “ready-made” villain in the form of Russians (“those dirty Russians,” “fucking Russians,” etc.). Even as freshly as 2018’s [Read More…]
Radioactive Hauntology: Prisoners of the Ghostland
For Nicolas Cage to deem Prisoners of the Ghostland as “the wildest movie I’ve ever made” is, of course, really saying something. This is the [Read More…]
Social Media in the Time of Full-Scale War
Being that the U.S. in particular has always been sheltered from the sight of war—having never seen it on their soil save for rare occasions [Read More…]
A Ritual Sacrifice for PG&E: Charli XCX’s “Beg For You” Video
Directed by Nick Harwood, Charli XCX’s latest video to promote her upcoming fifth album, Crash, is nothing if not decidedly Californian (maybe even as much [Read More…]
Florence + the Machine’s “King” One-Ups “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on the Feminist Anthem Front, But Is Still Hemmed In By the Limits of a Patriarchal Language
It’s been four years since Florence + the Machine came out with High As Hope, the band’s fourth record released over a nine-year period. If [Read More…]
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Presents a Woman’s Persistent “At War” Nature of Wanting to Be Taken Seriously Versus Wanting to Fuck Around
Because women’s “liberation,” as a rule, is really not all that “old” or “time-honored,” the gender, unlike the male one, has had to deal with [Read More…]
Anna Delvey: Another Bane for Millennial Representation That Reminds People How Much They Still Think Said Generation is “Worse” (Read: More Entitled) Than Gen Z
Because one of the most emblematic things of the millennial generation is pop culture-oriented retromania, it’s no wonder that the story of Anna Delvey, not [Read More…]
Nightmare Alley, “Girlboss’d” Edition: Inventing Anna
In an endless stream of the genre that ought to, at this point, be called “making sociopaths empathetic,” Shonda Rhimes’ latest hit, Inventing Anna, is [Read More…]
Jake Gyllenhaal’s Claim Regarding Red (Taylor’s Version) Sparks the Query: Is It Less Satisfying to Know the Ex You Targeted in Your Art Will Never “Receive” the Work?
In a new Esquire cover story, “Jake Gyllenhaal Reconsiders” or, in print format, “Jake Gyllenhaal Is Not the Man You Think He Is,” the eponymous [Read More…]
