Essay: Buzzing Bechdel’s Tower on Top Gun’s 30th

Posted on by A.E. Weisgerber

First published 13 May 2016 at Alternating Current.  To jump to the article, click here.

My friend Lori Sambol Brody is guest editing this month at Alternating Current, and she invited me to pick a day and write a short essay, so I decided to don my mirrored aviators and take this opportunity to put a literary lens on the 1986 blockbuster hit film, Top Gun.

Thanks, Lori, for the invite, and thank you for visiting my blog.  Here’s a link to “Bechdel Danger Zone: Happy 30th Anniversary Top Gun!”

(Image is a screen still from the 1986 Paramount Pictures release.)

A. E. Weisgerber is a teacher, editor, and hybrid writer from Orange, New Jersey. Awarded first place for features from the Society of Professional Journalists, she is a Reynolds Journalism Fellow, a 2018 Chesapeake Writer, and 2017’s Frost Place Scholar. Recent items in 3:AM, DIAGRAM, The Alaska Star, Yemassee, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Gravel Mag. Her flash fiction appears in many international anthologies. She is an Associate Series Editor for Wigleaf’s Top 50, and is currently writing her first novel about a terrible family that finally gets something right. @aeweisgerber anneweisgerber.com