Supporting Characters

Episode 70: Willow Catelyn Maclay


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Bill speaks with film critic and author Willow Catelyn Maclay about her various endeavors in film culture, from writing freelance criticism and creating the Curtsies and Hand Grenades website to contributing to special features to Blu-Rays from labels like Mondo Macabro, Arrow Video and American Genre Film Archive and co-authoring the book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA with Caden Mark Gardner. Topics include: BLADE RUNNER, Simran Hans' Girls Gotta Eat fanzine, Letterboxd, BOYS DON'T CRY, Elizabeth Purchell, the "Body Talk" series, constructive feedback from editors, COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN and the Lou Reed/Metallica "Lulu" album.

Read Curtsies and Hand Grenades: http://curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/ Buy CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695/corpses-fools-and-monsters-by-willow-maclay/

Buy the EVA MAN double feature - Limited Red Case Edition from Mondo Macabro: https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/eva-man-double-feature-limited-red-case-edition

Read Willow Catelyn Maclay on the music videos of Kate Bush: https://musings.oscilloscope.net/post/174602794486/moving-on-the-cinema-of-kate-bush-by-willow

Read Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner's Body Talk series: http://curtsiesandhandgrenades.blogspot.com/search/label/Body%20Talk Read Willow Catelyn Maclay's 2014 essay "Under the Skin's Transgender Allegory": http://curtsiesandhandgrenades.blogspot.com/2018/03/under-skins-transgender-allegory.html Read and follow Willow Catelyn Maclay on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/willowcatelynmaclay Watch Willow Catelyn Maclay on Turner Classic Movies: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRKhKh_Dm6s/ Read Caden Mark Gardner's essay "From the Margins: What the Archives Show Us About Trans Cinema and Audiences" for The Criterion Collection: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7254-from-the-margins-what-the-archives-show-us-about-trans-cinema-and-audiences

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