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Showing posts with label sexual politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual politics. Show all posts
7 Mar 2024

On Creeps and Creepiness, etc.

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Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in  Hitchcock's creepy horror Psycho (1960)       I.    We have been using the term creepy in English ...
3 Dec 2023

At Last the Legend of the White Rhinoceros is Fulfilled: Notes on Prehistoric Women (1967)

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Martine Beswick as Queen Kari and Edina Ronay as slave girl Saria  in Prehistoric Women (dir. Michael Carreras, 1967)     I.    I like a goo...
4 Jun 2022

She Never Lied to Us: Reflections on the Case of Irena Dubrovna

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Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna in   Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1942)   She was marked with the curse of those who slink and mate an...
31 Mar 2022

Notes on 'The Ladybird' (Pt. 1)

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Wenn ich ein Marienkäfer wär' Und auch vier Flüglein hätt', Flög' ich zu dir -   I.    The first work by D. H. Lawrence that I e...
22 Jan 2022

Chase Me - Catch Me - Kill Me - Eat Me!

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  The leopard will never lie down with the antelope.  Whilst the leopard is leopard, he must fall on the antelope, to devour her.  This is h...
27 Aug 2021

Reflections on Lady Chatterley's Daughter (Part I: Chapters 1-11)

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Front cover of Lady Chatterley's Daughter   by Patricia Robins (Consul Books, 1961) [a]     I.   D. H. Lawrence's final and most not...
18 Jun 2021

Reflections on The Rokeby Venus

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Diego Velázquez: The Toilet of Venus   aka 'The Rokeby Venus' (1647-51)   Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm  nationalgallery .org.uk   D...
20 May 2021

Eurotophobia and the Case of Yulia Tsvetkova

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Yulia Tsvetkova: 'Living Women Have Body Hair - And It's Normal!'  Drawing from the series A Woman is Not a Doll (2018)    I.  ...
18 May 2021

Notes on the Case of Caterina Sforza

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Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...