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Showing posts with label masculinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label masculinity. Show all posts
10 Jul 2025

D. H. Lawrence and Rudolph Valentino: the Priest of Love Versus the Latin Lover

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Messrs. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Valentino (1895-1926)    Oh Mister Rudolph Valentino / I know I've got the Valentino blues   And when ...
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 ...
5 Nov 2022

There's No Fool Like an Old Fool: Notes on the Case of Ambrose the Masked Dancer

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Jean Galland as Ambrose the masked dancer Le Plaisir (dir. Max Ophüls, 1952) [1]     "The truth of metaphysics is the truth of masks ....
10 Nov 2020

On the Sex Life of the Incredible Shrinking Man 2: Paedophilia

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  The Incredible Shrinking Man 10: The Babysitter (2012) By DrCreep on deviantart.com   I. Size Matters   Predators come in all shapes and ...
18 Sept 2020

In Praise of Fighters: At the Gym and on the Battlefield with D. H. Lawrence

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George Rodger's famous photo taken in Southern Sudan (1949)  of a Nuba wrestling champion being carried victorious upon  the shoulders o...
9 Oct 2019

Michel Houellebecq: Serotonin

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Front cover of the English hardback edition William Heinemann (2019) In the end, even your favourite writers let you down. And ...
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3 Jul 2018

Hollywood Tales: Notes on the Relationship between Kirk Douglas and John Wayne

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John Wayne as Taw Jackson and Kirk Douglas as Lomax in The War Wagon (dir. Burt Kennedy, 1967) I. Commenting on a recent po...
8 Nov 2017

Dollification: The Cases of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Alexander Hepburn

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Cover of the first US edition (1923)  by Knud Merrild  I: The Case of Bastian Schweinsteiger There was an amusing story in t...