Lori J Marso
Biographic Data
| ID | 389167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori J Marso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori J |
| FAMILY NAME | Marso |
| SIGNATURE | MARSO L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9990-4613 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Lida E. Maxwell’s Review of Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Promising Young Women and the White Noise of Patriarchy
Noticing that, in The Second Sex , Simone de Beauvoir deftly describes patriarchy as a male sensorium encompassing vision, smell, touch, taste, and sound, this article focuses on the way feminist directors utilize sound in film and television. Three examples—Chantal Akerman’s 1968 Blow Up My Town , Emerald Fennell’s 2020 Promising Young Woman , and Michaela Coel’s 2020 I May Destroy You —show how feminist media showcases the white noise of patria…
Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Beauvoir in Time , by Meryl Altman
Feminist sexual futures
Camerawork as Motherwork
In Jeanne Dielman (1975), From the Other Side (2002) and No Home Movie (2015), Belgian/French filmmaker Chantal Akerman's camera does motherwork by creating spaces where spectators are invited to encounter, hold, and work through discomforting feelings, memories, and fantasies. Roland Barthes's photographic search for his mother in Camera Lucida and feminist thinking on motherwork and fabulation in the Black radical tradition inform my reading of…
Can We Find Our Mothers in Time
Feminist Cringe Comedy
Feminist cringe comedies eschew the conventions of romance and sentimentality in favor of comedy that discomforts. Cringe comedies are one example of what I call feminism's visual realisms, so named for doing feminist political work by evoking laughter and the cringe. The cringe pulls us inward in our posture, while laughter opens us to others. This bodily response to cringe comedies interrupts the fantasies of the male gaze and makes space for s…
Politics, Theory, and Film
Lars von Trier’s intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection’s reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart – and sometimes feed – our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier’s role as provocateur, as well as to his films’ techniques, topics, and…
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 masterpiece, The Second Sex, is rarely considered a canonical text worthy of being studied within the history of political thought. Even within feminist scholarship, although it is often cited or acknowledged, only short excerpts, usually the introduction, are read carefully. This essay argues that the reception of The Second Sex has been marred by overly emotional and ambivalent responses, in part a result of its litera…
Perverse Protests
This essay engages Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to explore perverse forms of protest depicted in three films: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, and Lars von Trier’s two-volume Nymphomaniac. In each film, agency is linked to both sexuality and violence and is depicted as stemming from a range of affects—boredom, melancholy, anxiety, anger, desire, paranoia, revenge, and frustration. Emotions simmer until at some p…
Simone de Beauvoir and the politics of ambiguity
Solidarity sans identity
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
This article compares Hannah Arendt’s famous essay on Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1961 to Simone de Beauvoir’s little studied piece, “An Eye for an Eye,” on the trial of Robert Brasillach in France in 1945. Arendt and Beauvoir each determine the complicity of individuals acting within a political order that seeks to eliminate certain forms of otherness and difference, but come to differing conclusions about the significance of the crimes.…
A Symposium on the Political Thought of H. Mark Roelofs
When those of us who were Mark Roelofs's students, colleagues, and friends read his work, we can often hear his voice in the text: his impatience that the political potential he saw in the Protesta
Feminism's Quest for Common Desires
One attraction of “choice” feminism has been its refusal to judge the diverse desires of women. Yet for feminism to retain its political vision as a quest for social justice, we must continue difficult conversations concerning how acting on our individual desires impacts the lives of others. In this essay, I argue that feminists can acknowledge women's diverse desires while forging a meaningful feminist community. I make this argument by consider…
The Perversions of Bored Liberals
Counting himself as a boring liberal who would usually dismiss the likes of thinkers such as Emma Goldman as the radical fringe, Don Herzog purports to engage with Goldman's work in order to interrogate the political centrality of reasonableness among liberals and deliberative democrats. Casting Goldman as a lovesick radical, Herzog invites us to read her activism and politics as an affective stance resulting in an accurate critique of the Soviet…
Embodied Political Subjects
Calls for Papers
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Defying fraternity
The Stories of Citizens
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Germaine de Staël tell stories that warn against adopting the model of manly citizenship that emerged from the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought. This model includes idealization of the individual as autonomous self, faith in the possibility of a unitary public, the twinning of increasing enlightenment with increasing freedom and progress, and belief that political judgment is best made fr…
The Loving Citizen
Feminist Cringe Comedy
Feminist cringe comedies eschew the conventions of romance and sentimentality in favor of comedy that discomforts. Cringe comedies are one example of what I call feminism's visual realisms, so named for doing feminist political work by evoking laughter and the cringe. The cringe pulls us inward in our posture, while laughter opens us to others. This bodily response to cringe comedies interrupts the fantasies of the male gaze and makes space for s…
Feminism's Quest for Common Desires
One attraction of “choice” feminism has been its refusal to judge the diverse desires of women. Yet for feminism to retain its political vision as a quest for social justice, we must continue difficult conversations concerning how acting on our individual desires impacts the lives of others. In this essay, I argue that feminists can acknowledge women's diverse desires while forging a meaningful feminist community. I make this argument by consider…
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
This article compares Hannah Arendt’s famous essay on Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1961 to Simone de Beauvoir’s little studied piece, “An Eye for an Eye,” on the trial of Robert Brasillach in France in 1945. Arendt and Beauvoir each determine the complicity of individuals acting within a political order that seeks to eliminate certain forms of otherness and difference, but come to differing conclusions about the significance of the crimes.…
Perverse Protests
This essay engages Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to explore perverse forms of protest depicted in three films: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, and Lars von Trier’s two-volume Nymphomaniac. In each film, agency is linked to both sexuality and violence and is depicted as stemming from a range of affects—boredom, melancholy, anxiety, anger, desire, paranoia, revenge, and frustration. Emotions simmer until at some p…
Solidarity sans identity
The Stories of Citizens
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Germaine de Staël tell stories that warn against adopting the model of manly citizenship that emerged from the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought. This model includes idealization of the individual as autonomous self, faith in the possibility of a unitary public, the twinning of increasing enlightenment with increasing freedom and progress, and belief that political judgment is best made fr…
The Perversions of Bored Liberals
Counting himself as a boring liberal who would usually dismiss the likes of thinkers such as Emma Goldman as the radical fringe, Don Herzog purports to engage with Goldman's work in order to interrogate the political centrality of reasonableness among liberals and deliberative democrats. Casting Goldman as a lovesick radical, Herzog invites us to read her activism and politics as an affective stance resulting in an accurate critique of the Soviet…
Embodied Political Subjects
Calls for Papers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Loving Citizen
The Stories of Citizens
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Germaine de Staël tell stories that warn against adopting the model of manly citizenship that emerged from the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought. This model includes idealization of the individual as autonomous self, faith in the possibility of a unitary public, the twinning of increasing enlightenment with increasing freedom and progress, and belief that political judgment is best made fr…
Defying fraternity
Calls for Papers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Embodied Political Subjects
The Perversions of Bored Liberals
Counting himself as a boring liberal who would usually dismiss the likes of thinkers such as Emma Goldman as the radical fringe, Don Herzog purports to engage with Goldman's work in order to interrogate the political centrality of reasonableness among liberals and deliberative democrats. Casting Goldman as a lovesick radical, Herzog invites us to read her activism and politics as an affective stance resulting in an accurate critique of the Soviet…
A Symposium on the Political Thought of H. Mark Roelofs
When those of us who were Mark Roelofs's students, colleagues, and friends read his work, we can often hear his voice in the text: his impatience that the political potential he saw in the Protesta
Feminism's Quest for Common Desires
One attraction of “choice” feminism has been its refusal to judge the diverse desires of women. Yet for feminism to retain its political vision as a quest for social justice, we must continue difficult conversations concerning how acting on our individual desires impacts the lives of others. In this essay, I argue that feminists can acknowledge women's diverse desires while forging a meaningful feminist community. I make this argument by consider…
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
This article compares Hannah Arendt’s famous essay on Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1961 to Simone de Beauvoir’s little studied piece, “An Eye for an Eye,” on the trial of Robert Brasillach in France in 1945. Arendt and Beauvoir each determine the complicity of individuals acting within a political order that seeks to eliminate certain forms of otherness and difference, but come to differing conclusions about the significance of the crimes.…
Simone de Beauvoir and the politics of ambiguity
Solidarity sans identity
Politics, Theory, and Film
Lars von Trier’s intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection’s reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart – and sometimes feed – our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier’s role as provocateur, as well as to his films’ techniques, topics, and…
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 masterpiece, The Second Sex, is rarely considered a canonical text worthy of being studied within the history of political thought. Even within feminist scholarship, although it is often cited or acknowledged, only short excerpts, usually the introduction, are read carefully. This essay argues that the reception of The Second Sex has been marred by overly emotional and ambivalent responses, in part a result of its litera…
Perverse Protests
This essay engages Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to explore perverse forms of protest depicted in three films: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, and Lars von Trier’s two-volume Nymphomaniac. In each film, agency is linked to both sexuality and violence and is depicted as stemming from a range of affects—boredom, melancholy, anxiety, anger, desire, paranoia, revenge, and frustration. Emotions simmer until at some p…
Feminist Cringe Comedy
Feminist cringe comedies eschew the conventions of romance and sentimentality in favor of comedy that discomforts. Cringe comedies are one example of what I call feminism's visual realisms, so named for doing feminist political work by evoking laughter and the cringe. The cringe pulls us inward in our posture, while laughter opens us to others. This bodily response to cringe comedies interrupts the fantasies of the male gaze and makes space for s…
Camerawork as Motherwork
In Jeanne Dielman (1975), From the Other Side (2002) and No Home Movie (2015), Belgian/French filmmaker Chantal Akerman's camera does motherwork by creating spaces where spectators are invited to encounter, hold, and work through discomforting feelings, memories, and fantasies. Roland Barthes's photographic search for his mother in Camera Lucida and feminist thinking on motherwork and fabulation in the Black radical tradition inform my reading of…
Can We Find Our Mothers in Time
Beauvoir in Time , by Meryl Altman
Feminist sexual futures
Promising Young Women and the White Noise of Patriarchy
Noticing that, in The Second Sex , Simone de Beauvoir deftly describes patriarchy as a male sensorium encompassing vision, smell, touch, taste, and sound, this article focuses on the way feminist directors utilize sound in film and television. Three examples—Chantal Akerman’s 1968 Blow Up My Town , Emerald Fennell’s 2020 Promising Young Woman , and Michaela Coel’s 2020 I May Destroy You —show how feminist media showcases the white noise of patria…
Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Response to Lida E. Maxwell’s Review of Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
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