#GAReads | Women in horror: Victims no more
"Women in horror: Victims no more":
At the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, actress Jessica Chastain — who was serving as a jury member — said that she found the portrayals of women in the festival’s films “quite disturbing.”
To many, this isn’t exactly news. The lack of women in film — in front of and behind the camera — has been at the forefront of Hollywood criticism in recent years, with scholars and writers detailing the various ways women tend to be underrepresented or cast in stereotypical roles.