If you find yourself in Victoria, not far from the art gallery, off Rockland Avenue behind what was once a… Read more Changing the Refrain
Author: ezzatsara
My Life in Writing
Sara Ezzat – September 2020 I began with poetry. When I was little I loved the Flower Fairies books; I… Read more My Life in Writing
Lawrence and Me: Media Literacy in One Film
Sara Ezzat – January 2021 An empty desert fills the screen, two dust-covered figures stare into the hazy distance in… Read more Lawrence and Me: Media Literacy in One Film
Buffy vs Mina
An Examination of Gender Roles in Dracula and Buffy vs Dracula Sara Ezzat – July 2020 The episode Buffy vs… Read more Buffy vs Mina
Of Corsets and Constructs: Costumes and Gender in Vertigo
Sara Ezzat – April 2021 “It’s this darn corset, it binds” this is the first line spoken by Jimmy Stewart’s… Read more Of Corsets and Constructs: Costumes and Gender in Vertigo
Monsters and Outsiders: Otherness in Strangers on a Train and The Shape of Water
Sara Ezzat – March 2020 Guillermo Del Toro’s 2017 film The Shape of Water and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film Strangers… Read more Monsters and Outsiders: Otherness in Strangers on a Train and The Shape of Water
Is This What a Man Is?
Gender and Commodity Culture in Fight Club Sara Ezzat – December 2020 In a scene from David Fincher’s 1998 film… Read more Is This What a Man Is?
The Monstrous Woman in the Attic
Reading Bertha Mason Through Monster Theory Sara Ezzat – December 2020 Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel, Jane Eyre is the story… Read more The Monstrous Woman in the Attic
Failing the Beauty Obligation
A Personal Narrative Essay Sara Ezzat – April 2020 In the spring of 2018 I was watching the Academy Awards… Read more Failing the Beauty Obligation