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Showing posts with label susan sontag. Show all posts
26 Sept 2023

In Memory of a Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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David McCallum (1933-2023) as Illya Kuryakin  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68)     Thanks to Tom Cruise's big-screen reboot, many peopl...
6 Apr 2020

Tales from Storyville 3: The Poet and the Prostitute (Bellocq's Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey)

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Photo of Natasha Trethewey by Nancy Crampton  and photo of a Storyville prostitute by E. J. Bellocq I. According to Susan Sont...

Tales from Storyville 2: The Photos of E. J. Bellocq (With Notes from Susan Sontag)

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Photo of a Storyville prostitute  by E. J. Bellocq (c. 1912) Storyville may have been closed down in 1917 - and knocked down in the...
13 Feb 2019

In Praise of the Fatwa Boys 1: Remembering the Rushdie Affair

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The Fatwa Boys: Salman Rushdie and Larry David  Image credit: John P. Johnson / HBO On Valentine's Day, 1989, when the rest of...
4 Dec 2018

Reflections on a Photo of Two Young Punks

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Debbie Juvenile and Tracie  O'Keefe (Seditionaries 1977)  There are two reasons why I like this photograph ... Firstly, there...
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17 Sept 2018

On Art and Syphilis

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Elizabethan Era Syphilis  (detail) by Swedish makeup artist  Ylva Konradsson   Even though, by his own admission, Lawrence k...
12 Jun 2018

Ali Baba Comes Today: Notes on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures

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Participants in Jack Smith's queer-oriental fantasy  demonstrate  how all sexes  can be  transformed  via savage splendour  and ...
2 Jun 2017

Cabaret: Divine Decadence and Fascinating Fascism

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Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles  Cabaret  (1972)  For many people Cabaret  (1972) is a near-perfect film musical: one that appears ...
11 Mar 2016

Lady Chatterley's Daughter

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Cover of Lady Chatterley's Daughter , ed. Lawrence Lariar,  (Popular Library, 1960) At the end of Lady Chatterley's Lover ...
4 Mar 2016

Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Pornographic Imagination

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Poster for the English language version of   L'Amant de lady Chatterley   (dir. Marc Allégret, 1955) Although Lawre...
27 Dec 2014

On the Malign/ed Art of Faking It (Part III) - A Guest Post by Thomas Tritchler

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Cover of the 2010 Penguin edition of  Wilde's 1891 essay 'The Decay of Lying' The Romantics understood that all poe...