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Friday Feb 19, 2021
"To The Bone" (Noxon 2017) Case Study
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Today's discussion focuses on Marti Noxon's To The Bone (2017) which tells the harrowing story of twenty-year-old Ellen (played by Lily Collins) who struggles with anorexia amidst a challenging family dynamic that aggravates her feelings of helplessness and lack of control. As one of the more recent cultural portrayals of EDs, I discuss how this film is problematic by employing film critic Laura Mulvey's understanding of fetishistic scopophilia.
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Chu, Paige. “Illness as Aesthetic.” The Varsity, 3 Sept. 2018, thevarsity.ca/2018/09/03/illness-as-aesthetic/.
Gilbert, Sophie. “'To the Bone' and the Trouble With Anorexia on Film.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 19 July 2017, www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/to-the-bone-review-netflix/533517/.
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Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, 8th ed., Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 620-631.
Noxon, Marti, director. To The Bone. Netflix, 2017, www.netflix.com/watch/80171659?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C6ee4505264385b3738adfe32df0c1a8d3c45383d%3A8e7e3c6ff0af3bd21e67ad63ece30c9f8a91ce3e%2C6ee4505264385b3738adfe32df0c1a8d3c45383d%3A8e7e3c6ff0af3bd21e67ad63ece30c9f8a91ce3e%2Cunknown%2C.
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Waldman, Katy. “We Need to Reject the False Narratives Around Anorexia. I Can Start by Telling My Story.” Slate Magazine, 7 Dec. 2015, www.slate.com/articles/double_x/cover_story/2015/12/we_need_to_reject_the_false_narratives_around_anorexia.html.
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