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Window Dressing
Hosted by Madelaine Jane Auble · EN
Redemption arcs abound in this feminist-driven history-of-women-in-film-and-television podcast. Part film history, part cultural critique, and heavy with bejeweled gowns, I explore the intersections between fame, glamour, fashion, and film. And the role they have played in constructing and influencing American culture throughout the last 100 years.
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Cruel Intentions
3w ago00:22:27Tap to summarizeAs Kathryn, the Marquise de Merteuil, Sarah Michelle Gellar brings new life to the role originally inked in the 1782 source material, Dangerous Liaisons. I am desperate to talk about her character's oh so sophisticated mustard and black corset and cocaine cross necklace
Transcribe →AHSHANTI: BABY
3w ago00:01:51Tap to summarizeAshanti gets it
Transcribe →CRASH 1996
3w ago00:01:16Tap to summarizeCronenberg's Crash has unexpectedly ignited a girl internet obsession with James Spader's unique ability to make my knees shape.
Transcribe →Britney Spears Part 2
May 1600:56:11Tap to summarizeGiven everything that is going on with Britney currently, or at least the TMZ version of it, it's time to look back at what has already been done to her. We can't let this happen again.
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Addison Rae
Apr 2600:02:40Tap to summarizeAddison Rae honors old Hollywood with her moon manicure during Coachella's first weekend. I break down more of her manifesting fashion choices in this short episode.
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SLAYYYTER $
Apr 2600:03:26Tap to summarizeSlayyter is indeed The Worst Girl in America, and we need her.
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Remy Bond
Apr 2600:02:20Tap to summarizeRemy Bond is showing us the worlds that exist in the hearts of American girls, including halters adorned with pink flamingos, vintage barkcloth Hawaiian dresses, dolphin-inspired bra tops, and Haight Street-coded bell sleeves. Her hyper-high, reaching-closer-to-god wig is giving Dolly Parton with 1920s finger wave curls. Remy takes the dumb blonde imagery to the beach in her silver-screen mermaid garb and her deep understanding of a theme as the American way of life. The tropical destination as an escape from the daily grind is woven into how we approach leisure in this country, and she turns it into a candy-coated, teddy-bear-toting ritual that saves our collective souls, while still recognizing the inherent tragedy in being a girl.
Transcribe →Spring Breakers
Apr 500:18:20Tap to summarizeSpring Breakers is essentially a teen exploitation film and has very little of the hyperrealism of his 90s cult classic, Kids. It is quite the opposite; the Tumbler-style image montage of a film appears to be a meditation on the vacuous and the deeply problematic areas of American culture, namely drugs, young girls, white rappers, and group sex. But the commentary on “aesthetics” as an indication of ideals unsaid is profoundly pertinent to girlhood in this country. The soundtrack, consisting of two Britney Spears songs at a time when her 5150 and subsequent conservatorship was embedded in culture, draws an unmistakable image of the freedom-seeking at the core of every neon bikini and ‘down to f**k’ branded pair of sweatpants worn in this film.
Transcribe →Wuthering Heights: 2026
Mar 2100:20:56Tap to summarizeEmeral Fennel’s 2026 adaptation of Wuthering Heights has become a cultural product of contention. The controversy has focused on the failures of her adaptation of Emily Brontë’s brilliant classic, but from the many, many things I have seen and read that adopt this stance, very few of them include any note to, or awareness of, any other film adaptation of the work. Including, most importantly, the 1939 adaptation, widely considered a classic and the standard-bearer. This is my comparison of all three works, with a focus on what has been lost in the heart of Fennel's version. Namely, real love.
Transcribe →DOUBLE INDEMNITY: Femme Fatale 101
Feb 700:25:35Tap to summarizeThis week, I discuss the most well-known and reviled femme fatale in film history: Phyllis Dietrichson, played by one of the most respected and beloved actresses in American film: Barbara Stanwyck. This episode was originally aired as part of my American Trash and National Treasures series. The video version is in reverence to the Double Indemnity house and in celebration of my upcoming move near it. The 1944 film noir Double Indemnity is one of the shiniest, most monied film noirs produced in its time. The film is based on James M. Cain's book of the same name. The story itself is inspired by a true crime that is so American it smells like apple pie and fresh blood. This and every episode of Window Dressing is written, performed, researched, costumed, styled, and filmed by Madelaine Jane Auble
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