Dana Luciano
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great questions
Great questions, thanks! Hollis, a good point about identification with commercial media productions. Borden’s film was self-produced; it took her years, using non-professional actors and a total budget of about 40k, to get it done. But she has remarked i ... -
Inmigrantes
Great post, Dana, and great conversation. The conceptual disjoint that your congressmember displayed—the inability to hear “gay” and “immigration” in the same sentence—is reproduced in the non-conversation (or worse) between many mainstream immigration-ri ... -
the void, the feeling of emptiness
Thanks for posting that, Ron, and for pushing us to think more about a case about which I, too, feel a great deal of ambivalence. I’ve actually been avoiding thinking much about this story; at the time, I paid only enough attention to note the chorus risi ... -
slashing the covers
I’m interested, as I said earlier, in the way this vid and the one Dana posted might talk to one another. As a deliberately (and “seriously”) repurposed piece of femslash, itself a genre of repurposing, “El Cazador de la Inmigrante” picks up on suggestive ... -
The referent for citizenship?
To follow on Avi’s comment, one of the things that struck me about this clip was the taken-for-grantedness of the audience’s (and host’s) ability to circulate in the global marketplace without any difficulty; even McDonough’s inability to speak Spanish is ...