Merrily We Go To Hell: “The Holy State Of Matrimony,” Pre-Code Style

|Lucille Hanson| (The following contains spoilers for Merrily We Go To Hell.) Before writing this for Perisphere, I had seen Merrily only once before: a couple years ago, during a rare day where I watched numerous movies back to back (I cannot believe that I bookended this with Saw VI and Bamboozled.). I ended up leaving… Continue reading

Between Hardship and Liberation: Connecting Working Girls Across Time Through the Triple Feature

|Jillian Nelson| During the summer of ‘92, right before her senior year of high school, my mother moved out of her parents’ home and into her great aunt’s basement which she rented for fifty dollars a month. Her senior year she paid for everything on her own: school supplies, sports equipment… Continue reading