Samir Dayal
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DISPLACED/MISPLACED MASCULINITIES?
/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Thanks for these helpful comments. Darcey, you raise important questions. I too was struck by the NYT op-ed arguing that "if McQueary walked in on a 10 year old girl (instead of a boy) being raped, he would have stopped it imme ... -
The Flip Side of Motherize Is Infantilize
Hi Hinda: Enjoyed your witty contribution. In the light of what you say, isn't an implication that the "athlete-husband" is infantilized as he (since it is usually a he) motherizes his wife or in Woods' case " mujerizes " ... -
Vick v. Ryan: The Race Card, Again
Very interesting curation, particularly in the way you contrast Vick and Ryan along several axes: religion, class and race. I'm particularly interested in the race issue: the rhetoric and imagery that complicate the recent flap about how Vick has bee ... -
Max’s perspective
Dear Kaitlin: Thank you for your thought provoking post. One of the most intriguing ideas you present is the idea of separating the perspective of the "neurotypical" parents, with which neurotypical viewers will presumably identify. By contra ... -
A postscript, or preface
For reasons of space, I could not frame the curatorial comment above, but it is important to remember the context of contemporary debates on autism.The appropriation of the semiotics of autism has re-emerged as an issue in popular culture. In the 1950s, p ... -
Nobody in their right adult minds?
Hi Nedda: Thanks for your important questions. I'd suggest that the film's melodramatic staging of autism as a device to elicit sympathy is not manipulative in the sense of expressing a cynical disregard for autistic persons or in being a feckl ... -
Appreciating Tampopo
Michelle and Eric, thanks for your interesting commentary. I have just this week been teaching T ampopo in a class on food and film, so your postings arrive at a good time for me and my students. I will have them look at them in class tomorrow. We' ... -
An answer re: an "answer"
Miriam: Thanks for your response to my post. Sure, I think we do read intertextually, and to that extent I agree that the sources I mentioned were not consciously intending to deprecate this film as derivative. I was just suggesting that "an ans ... -
Another animated take on the Ramayana
Barton, thanks for your interesting contribution. While there is the issue, as other comments have pointed out, of such a production conflating "Indian" with "Hindu," and therefore playing into the hands of the Hindu right, I was thin ... -
Articulating the State
Randy, thanks for your interesting comments and questions. To your first comment, indeed it is almost as if there were a law of the excluded middle in operation: the state can only be too violent or not violent enough. An "adequately violent" ...