Arguing that women in cinema bear rather than make meaning, Lake asks what happens when a woman’s death is unseen.
Kaitlin Lake
Kaitlin Lake received her PhD in 2024 from the University of Sydney, where she now teaches. Her doctoral thesis read films featuring missing or absent characters as spectatorial experiences that mirror the tenets of Sartrean existentialism. Her writing has appeared in The Australasian Journal of American Studies and Alphaville. She also has chapters forthcoming in two collections: one on the body-swap trope in Jordan Peele’s film and television works, and one on a parody of The Blair Witch Project. Kaitlin is currently writing an article, by invitation, on Sartrean bad faith in the 1989 film Weekend at Bernie’s for a special issue on existentialism for Film-Philosophy. She is preparing her first monograph for publication: a study of existentialism and liminal characters in film.
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