jovana jankovic, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/jjankovic/ a journal of film and feminism Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:45:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: compulsion and comedy in Serial Mom https://cleojournal.com/2016/08/18/cant-stop-wont-stop-compulsion-and-comedy-in-serial-mom/ Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:12:02 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1659 Opening on a sunlit suburban breakfast table surrounded by a stereotypical white middle-class family, John Waters’ Serial Mom (1994) proceeds to unrelentingly and hilariously skewer small-town community “values” through the story of Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner), a smiling, stoic, and devoted wife and mother who dabbles in serial murder on the side. Beverly runs over […]

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