Watch out listener, this episode might chew you up! Dolly Back takes on Julia Ducournau's directorial debut Raw, revolving around the coming-of-age of a young veterinarian student developing new appetites. As your hosts get a taste of what this course has to offer, they explore Ducournau's many cinematic influences, incredible command of lighting and montage, and set the film against the recent debate around "elevated horror". In the blood-slicked, sanitized world of Ducournau, bodies undergo constant metamorphosis, and your hosts check between the sutures as she dissects the way exchange value, initiation, biopolitics, and sisterhood all intersect in spectacular fashion!
Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Sandeep Sreelakha's Essay - Julia's Fascination With The Human Body and Cannibalism
Orla Smith's Essay - Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau's humanist Raw"
