Oh. My. God. I love '70s TV. I thought I'd said all I wanted to about it until this week. But there is just so much fascinating stuff going on when it comes to masculinity, as Avi's example and comments illustrate so beautifully. Thanks, ev ...
Avi, your point "it might be interesting to think of the 1970s as a decade of experimentation with mixed gendered addresses on television (and in the cinema) resulting in a wider range of representations as well as a destabilizing of traditional masc ...
Following up on Avi's comment, perhaps we could think about the different addresses of film and television (at least the feminized television the previous three entries have addressed--soaps, mini-series, family drama). Taxi Driver is clearly a film ...
I think there is a difference between female audiences being interested in and/or enjoying a text (TD in this case) and it offering a feminized address--or a non-patriarchal, non-heterocentric address (not saying these are equivalent to a feminized addres ...
This makes me look forward to the DVD release! 1970s and early '80s mini-series and MFTV movies are woefully underexplored texts, as the richness of this example demonstrates. The feminized masculinity of this case so perfectly parallels the negotiat ...
This was a one-time episode for GL and a one-issue comic book for Marvel. I don't think it did much for bringing new viewers to the soap--or vice versa. But Guiding Light in particular, and a number of other soaps, as well, are doing all kinds of exp ...
Thanks for all the great comments and questions. I'll try my best to address them all: Joe: Yes, you're right that Luke is threatening to Bobbie here, but he does have many moments of emotional vulnerability, crying, etc. I read his threatening ...
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Oh. My. God. I love '70s
Avi, your point "it might be
Following up on Avi's
I think there is a
This makes me look forward
This was a one-time episode
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