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  1. Oct 22, 2015 · It does not quite have the grandeur and force of “Selma,” and the script has a few too many glowingly emotive speeches. The final turns of the tale are suspenseful, but also a bit frantic. But ...

    • Sarah Gavron
  2. Oct 22, 2015 · Movie Review: ‘Suffragette’. By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and ROBIN LINDSAY • October 22, 2015. The Times critic A.O. Scott reviews “Suffragette.”.

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    • The New York Times
  3. Jul 20, 2022 · 5 Ana Stevenson, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Boston: South End Press, 1981); Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class (London: The Women’s Press, 1981 ...

  4. Nov 25, 2019 · The 2015 film 'Suffragette', which recently came to Netflix, shows working-class women's struggle for voting rights in 1900s London — a tale that is all too resonant in 2019 (Photo via YouTube).

  5. Oct 8, 2015 · Scene from 'Suffragette'Suffragette sets out to tell the story of the ‘footsoldiers’ of the women’s suffrage movement. Director Sarah Gavon and writer Abi Morgan have therefore made the refreshing decision to avoid a more traditional focus on the famous Pankhurst family and the numerous well-dressed ladies who swelled the ranks of the ...

  6. October 23, 2015. 4 min read. Movies about political movements tend to have one of two problems: 1.) The film views the events through the filter of one individual’s experience, narrowing the scope. 2.) The film takes a rote, careful approach, sacrificing emotional complexity. “Suffragette,” detailing the push for women’s suffrage in ...

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  8. Feb 8, 2016 · Abstract. Review of the film Suffragette (2015), written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron, considering its use of fiction to explore women’s history, comparing it to other dramatic treatments of the suffrage campaign, its historical accuracy and its portrayal of the legal and social position of women, and wives, during the early ...