Word: genetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Animal Butchery. Jean Genet, France's existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...
Much as I enjoy the role of Guardian of Undergraduate Morality for which the CRIMSON article on the cancellation of the Humanities 4 Genet film has cast me, I should like to point out a few distortions in that article...
...minute film Un Dance d'Amour, produced and directed by Jean Genet, had been scheduled as the last of four movies to be shown in the course this Spring. But, after section men previewed the film late Wednesday night, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, decided that the movie was not "fit for such general consumption...
...mistake from the beginning," Chapman said yesterday. "When we scheduled the film we thought it would have some dramatic relevance, but we realized after viewing it that if it hadn't been done by Genet it would probably have been junked long...
Friedman said later that whether or not the movie should have been shown to French 183 was up to Johnson's discretion. He pointed out that the film did pertain directly to the course's subject matter. In contrast, he noted that Genet was not even included in the regular Hum 4 reading list...