From: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask] > Subject: My Thesis > > > If any brave and hardy soul would like a copy of my PhD thesis - > "From the > Actual to the Real: Left Wing Documentary Film in Australia > 1946-96", send > me a snail mail address and I will post a disk out in Word 6.0. Free of > charge of course!! Just put 'Gary -Thesis' in the subject heading. > > The thesis [...]44_15Feb200011:26:[log in to unmask]
8027 101 23_Re: Talented Mr. Ripley14_michael [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 08:20:12 -0500683_iso-8859-1 Alison and David. There are SOME good reviews (and I stress the word some) such as that of the Village Voice at http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9951/taubin.shtml. Others are indexed in an interesting site called Rotten Tomatoes. It can be found at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movies/titles/talented_mr_ripley/reviews .php None are of academic quality, but they are worth reading. best, m. -----Original Message----- From: Alison McMahan <[log in to unmask]> To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:05 AM Subject: Re: Talented Mr. Ripley [...]36_15Feb200008:20:[log in to unmask]
8129 19 23_Re: Talented Mr. [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 12:24:02 -0500 (EST)550_- I have my own problems with "Ripley". The movie is eye candy and little more. But I must take issue with the homophobia critique. It is no more homophobic than "Psycho". That may seem an obvious comparison and please believe that I am not comparing these two movies on the basis of quality. Of course Ripley is a weak attempt at Hitchcockian suspence. But what kind of stories are we going to be telling or listening to if we insist that the characters in those stories must be clean, must somehow represent only the good. If its dark it must [...]49_15Feb200012:24:02-0500(EST)[log in to unmask]
8149 60 23_Re: Talented Mr. Ripley14_michael [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 12:44:51 -0500601_iso-8859-1 I don't think anyone would argue with your perception that there are gay psychopaths just as there are for every other sexuality. It's just that when the only portrayal of gays is that of the psychopath that such portrayals become problematic. In american television for example the psychopath was always the portrayal for a number of years. Now, in the 90's and 2000, most if not all gay characters are there for comic relief. It seems as though the media can only deal with gays in one dimensional descriptions. Gays as a group are as varied as any other and [...]36_15Feb200012:44:[log in to unmask]
8210 20 37_It's subversive all right -- official13_Jeremy [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 19:35:44 -0000170_iso-8859-1 Dear All
You can tell how darkly subversive _American Beauty_ is from the way mainstream Hollywood shunned it at the Oscar nominations.
Jeremy41_15Feb200019:35:[log in to unmask]
8231 30 41_Re: It's subversive all right -- official14_michael [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 15:16:57 -0500504_iso-8859-1 Laughing Outloud here, Jeremy!
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Bowman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:39 PM Subject: It's subversive all right -- official
>Dear All > >You can tell how darkly subversive _American Beauty_ is from the way >mainstream Hollywood shunned it at the Oscar nominations. > >Jeremy > >36_15Feb200015:16:[log in to unmask]
8262 33 29_American Beauty as Subversive17_Edward R. [log in to unmask], 15 Feb 2000 15:17:48 -0500356_iso-8859-1 I found Jeremy Bowman's comment very witty, but a glance at the history of the Oscars shows that they have't alwaysL-ētn |