C. Zhang, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a C. Zhang, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

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C. Zhang reads English at University College, Oxford. She desires, above all, to keep loving what she loves.

The Body Embarrassed: “Cringing” as Empathetic Response to American Beauty and The Talented Mr. Ripley

June 11, 2025

As American Beauty deals with visualized and thematic pleasure by giving us “beauty” in both sexualized and desexualized forms, and Ripley makes us feel like a voyeur alongside its protagonist[…]

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