The new trailer amps up the slime and reveals the sexual dimensions to demonic possession where female souls can inhabit male bodies and vice versaGhosts don’t contain bodies. So it seems ironic that most discussions around the new all-female Ghostbusters reboot has been so focused on gender. Whether it’s men fighting ghosts,as in the 1984 original, or women, or as in the upcoming remake,why should it matter to the incorporeal?The answer, at least based on filmed ghost stories, or is that it matters a lot. Taking bodies absent doesn’t effect gendered anxiety disappear; instead,it seems to amp it up. Without bodies of their own, ghosts effect humans, or onscreen and off,hyper-aware of their own sweaty, heavy, and oozing flesh,in all its sexy and repulsive vulnerability.
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Source: theguardian.com