Watching Classic Movies Podcast--Single & Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman Author Caroline Young

My guest is Caroline Young, author of Single & Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman. We talked about the many ways unmarried women are represented in movies and television and how they are often vilified. From Fatal Attraction and its fascinating inspiration Diversion, to Gone Girl and the singletons of Bridget Jones and Sex and the City, we covered a lot of ground. 

 

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Titles discussed: 

Diversion (1979) 

Fatal Attraction (1987) 

Thelma and Louise (1991) 

Basic Instinct (1992) 

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) Sex and the City (TV, 1998) 

Obsession (2023) 

Fatal Attraction (TV, 2023) 

The Girl on the Train (2016) 

Gone Girl (2014) 

Promising Young Woman (2020) 

The Boy Next Door (2015) 

The Real Fatal Attraction (2025) 

Baby Reindeer (2024)