{"id":13238,"date":"2020-04-01T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13238"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:45:28","slug":"for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For All the Dead Heroes&#8221;: My tribute to Lizzie Borden&#8217;s &#8220;Born in Flames&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>is up at We Are the Mutants:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that goes off at the top of the Twin Towers is the final image of her punk feminist film <i>Born in Flames<\/i>. (It\u2019s safe to say that the shock of the ending has not been diminished by the passage of time.) <i>Born in Flames<\/i> is a loving\u2014or at least, love-hating\u2014tribute to the lower-rent sectors of early \u201980s New York, and to the fractious feminist movements that tried to carry \u201970s militancy into the era of the \u201ccareer woman.\u201d It\u2019s beautiful and funny, and the most punk thing about it is that it\u2019s the rare political film that exposes contradictions rather than purporting to solve problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wearethemutants.com\/2020\/04\/01\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that goes off at the top of the Twin Towers is the final image of her punk feminist film Born in Flames. (It\u2019s safe to say that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[437,114,170,455,264],"class_list":["post-13238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-she-says-i-am-not-a-femini-i-ist","tag-the-day-the-world-turned-day-glo","tag-the-definition-of-revolutionary-success","tag-unintended-consequences-are-a-conservative-rhetorical-device","tag-work-is-a-four-letter-word"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;For All the Dead Heroes&quot;: My tribute to Lizzie Borden&#039;s &quot;Born in Flames&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;For All the Dead Heroes&quot;: My tribute to Lizzie Borden&#039;s &quot;Born in Flames&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html\",\"name\":\"\\\"For All the Dead Heroes\\\": My tribute to Lizzie Borden's \\\"Born in Flames\\\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\"},\"description\":\"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8220;For All the Dead Heroes&#8221;: My tribute to Lizzie Borden&#8217;s &#8220;Born in Flames&#8221;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"description\":\"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Eve Tushnet\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"For All the Dead Heroes\": My tribute to Lizzie Borden's \"Born in Flames\"","description":"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"For All the Dead Heroes\": My tribute to Lizzie Borden's \"Born in Flames\"","og_description":"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html","og_site_name":"Eve Tushnet","article_published_time":"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00","author":"Eve Tushnet","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Eve Tushnet","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html","name":"\"For All the Dead Heroes\": My tribute to Lizzie Borden's \"Born in Flames\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00","dateModified":"2020-04-01T16:45:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415"},"description":"is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade Center. I\u2019m talking about Lizzie Borden the film director, and the bomb that","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/04\/for-all-the-dead-heroes-my-tribute-to-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;For All the Dead Heroes&#8221;: My tribute to Lizzie Borden&#8217;s &#8220;Born in Flames&#8221;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/","name":"Eve Tushnet","description":"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415","name":"Eve Tushnet","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Eve Tushnet"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}