Aniko Imre
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humor 2
Yes, that was my follow-up question: how does the humor help translate the film, and its political commitment, to similar cultural contexts. Is there such a thing as transnational political humor and if so, through what avenues does it impact this particu ... -
a great model
What a wonderful initiative to pool the resources of a range existing organizations in order to use films for activism without putting the entire burden on the filmmaker's shoulders. It's great to be able to see a model that can at least begin ... -
Thank you, Mary. Perhaps the
Thank you, Mary. Perhaps the most powerful, perhaps inadvertent lesson of the film is precisely this contradiction at the heart of nationalism: that it's so inclusive and exclusive at the same time. One of the scenes in the film shows footage of the ... -
Hi Alex, exactly: I think
Hi Alex, exactly: I think what makes this film so compelling to watch, and the key to its activist intervention, is that it renders the women interviewed totally 'normal'-- a term routinely used to mark the national boundaries around heterosex ... -
Sheila,
Thank you for your comment. I agree that the experiences depicted in the film seem at once globally linked and isolated, even incommensurable with those of LGBT communities in the US. This particular film's main activist mission is to get through to ... -
glass cage
Thanks, Fiona, for bringing up the issue of different 'regimes of visibility.' It's one of the most interesting questions brought up by the film and films like it because it's a site of the incommensurability between Western models of ... -
Humor as a transnational tool?
Hi Fiona, I'm struck by the powerful use of humor in these pieces-- verging on the grotesque and the absurd in some cases. I wonder why the filmmakers decided on this kind of shocking humor as the main tone of the series. Or is it just a coincidence ...