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Angelica Jade Bastién is an American essayist and critic. She is a staff writer for Vulture, where she has reviewed film and written television recaps since 2015. Bastién also specializes in horror and depictions of women and madness. She has published writing in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Harper's Bazaar, Criterion.com, and others. Her work has been cited in outlets including Vanity Fair, Vox, and The Independent.[1][2][3]

Angelica Jade Bastién
Occupation
  • Critic
  • essayist
Alma materColumbia College Chicago
Subjects
  • Madness
  • horror
  • women
  • feminism
  • culture
Years active2013–present
Website
twitter.com/angelicabastien

Career


Bastién is a staff writer for Vulture, where she reviews film and television.[4] She has contributed writing to The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic, and others.[5][6][7][8] Her criticism synthesizes her analysis of the casting, plot, and cinematography with off-screen production decisions and the media industry at large.[9] Frequents topics of her analysis include feminism and representations of Black people in film and television.[10][11][12] She has a strong personal interest in the horror genre and is also known as an expert on the work of Keanu Reeves.[9] Bastién cited Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin as her biggest writing influences.[9]

Bastién's writing also explores depictions of women, mental health, and madness.[13] She has connected her personal experiences with mental illness to her criticism.[14] Bastién named Now, Voyager as a movie that has great personal significance to her and appeared on the podcast On Being to discuss the film. The episode "This Movie Changed Me: "Now, Voyager"" was named a 2019 Webby Award honoree.[15]

Her writing has been cited widely in mainstream outlets such as Jezebel,[16] The Washington Post,[17] The A.V. Club,[13] and the Los Angeles Times.[18] She has provided commentary to WBEZ,[19] The Guardian,[11] and 1A.[20]


Personal life


Bastién was raised in Miami and her family is from Louisiana.[9][21] She is Afro-Latina.[12] She resides in Chicago, where she received her bachelor's degree from Columbia College Chicago.[6][22]


Awards and nominations


2022 ASME Awards[23]


References


  1. Balanescu, Miriam (January 29, 2021). "How bad sex became a staple of feminist drama". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 7, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  2. "Should Anyone Watch Gone With the Wind?". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  3. Johnson, Tre (August 17, 2017). "Can film inspire productive conversations about racial justice? 2 recent ones are trying". Vox. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  4. Kelly, Mary Louise (September 17, 2017). "Movie Review: Darren Aronofsky's 'Mother!'". NPR. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Bastién, Angelica Jade (April 16, 2017). "'The Good Fight' Season 1 Finale Recap: Trojan Horses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  6. Ewell, Audrey (June 7, 2017). "On Loving — and Panning — Shows in Television's Renaissance Moment: A Report from the Split Screens Festival". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Bastién, Angelica Jade (September 9, 2016). "On Femininity as a Prison in 'Laura' and 'Leave Her to Heaven,' a Great Noir Double Feature". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Bastién, Angelica Jade (October 5, 2016). "For Women of Color, the Price of Fandom Can Be Too High". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  9. Prime, Sophie-Marie (March 11, 2021). "Know Your Critic: Angelica Jade Bastién, Critic at Vulture\/New York Magazine". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. Bastien, Angelica Jade. "Detroit movie review & film summary (2017)". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. Wheeler, Andre (December 4, 2019). "'Make films where black characters don't die': Queen & Slim sparks debate over 'trauma porn'". The Guardian. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. Bastién, Angelica Jade (April 21, 2017). "The Empathy Machine: Why Moonlight Isn't Universal and That's a Good Thing". cléo. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. "Read This: How Mary Harron made a feminist film out of American Psycho". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  14. Blay, Zeba (July 21, 2016). "4 Black Women Writers Get Honest About Mental Illness And Race". HuffPost. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  15. "Honoree This Movie Changed Me: "Now, Voyager" with Angelica Jade Bastién". Webby Awards. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. Hope, Clover (August 8, 2018). "Natasha Rothwell: A New Queen of Comedy". Jezebel. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. Rosenberg, Alyssa (June 1, 2021). "Opinion | Recoiling from on-screen racist violence isn't the same thing as celebrating Black people's lives". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  18. Olsen, Mark (June 19, 2020). "Indie Focus: Celebrate with 'Miss Juneteenth'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. "The Beguiled / Top 5 Sofia Coppola Scenes". WBEZ Chicago. June 30, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  20. "1A Movie Club: 'Cruella'". 1A. June 1, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. Bastién, Angelica Jade (July 12, 2019). "The Summer's Best Thriller Is a Movie About Home-Invading Alligators". Vulture. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  22. "Alumni Shorts". www.colum.edu. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  23. "ASME Awards 2022: @NYMag nominated in Essays and Criticism category for three articles by @angelicabastien". Twitter. Retrieved February 24, 2022.




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