Lichtenstein Teeth (2007)

1st Reactions: backlash genre; comedy/camp?

Teeth as modern day Medusa myth (Medusa as classic victim of sexual assault then metamorphsed; about scaring men)

Intertextuality/Allusions

Medusa mythology; on TV in end scene, use of snake poster

The step-brother: only does anal, "I have a perfectly good pussy"; the dog metaphors for dehumanizing and subjugating women dog as "mother" doggy style

The origin of the Vagina Dentata

powerplant nuclear plant: establishing shot suggests radiation/pollution?

evolution classroom scene: after the "what's wrong with me" it maybe reframes Dawn's body as not wrong

2000s context

Ways vaginas are framed/theorized/talked about

state funded education and the "sticker scene": ripping montage mirrors sexual violence; if people don't understand, it allows the violence; critiques censorship and education

Purity/Virginity

medical discourse

red ring and purity (also hi, evokes vagina)

gender binary,. call and response, gift giving for roses vs sexy music video?

rom com/camp

the close ups, angelic non-diegetic music,

Dawn O'Keefe--references to Georgia O'Keefe who painted a bunch of flowers/vaginas; Dawn as new life, pure,

self-knowledge

no non-diegetic music in the masturbation scene; also feels invasive (close up shots, her tentative movements); tied to marriage/masturbation fantasy/ wedding bells chiming

the limits of the FANTASY of wedding night

"What is wrong with me"--frames sex as bad, frames desire as negative

rattle/vagina dentata talks about women's survival

Dawn removing the sticker--peaceful and gentleness, SHE KNOWS AND RECOGNIZES HER BODY IN A TEXT BOOK; use of water imagery as renewal/rebirth/cleansing

mutation: x-men vagina, suggests deviance/negative connotation

the hero myth villianizes women, "break her power" (historical legacy of demonizing women's bodies and sexuality); frames sex acts as conquest

myth leads to gynecologist (something wrong)

call for a difference in education

the use of dicks: oh hey whatever, but we never get

2008 serial rapist (that Netflix has picked up)

Brok Turner garbage man who did no trucking time for rape

SayHerName

Chanel Miller's book "Know My name"

the limits of the rape=revenge narrative