Quote:
"Questioning the cultural impulse to denigrate female celebrities who make spectacles of themselves, [Mary] Harron's portrayal of [Anna Nicole] Smith [in Anna Nicole ] draws from a reparative sympathy and a subtle but discernible feminist perspective. The result is more than a fair account of Smith's story; Harron highlights the commodity feminism implicitly animating Smith's career ambitions and places her work in a tradition in which women have represented themselves within the visual genres of sexual display as 'self-aware, assertive, strong, and independent,' as Maria Elena Buszek puts it in her study of the feminist pin-up."
-- Kimberley Lamm

Source:
Lamm, Kimberley. "On the Other Side of the Icon: Making Images and Restaging Celebrity Spectacle in Anna Nicole." In ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, edited by Kyle Barrett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (p. 39)