Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images of Emmanuelle and The Story of O. These films are degenerate in the colloquial sense, wallowing in themes of glorified sex and sexual subjection while purporting to be serious artistic works. In Inserts John Byrum deals with degeneracy in a more literal sense, addressing the idea of the moral, spiritual, and intellectual decay of one man--the degeneration of The Boy Wonder from what it is suggesdgd he once was to what...
...DOMINANT theme of Inserts is sex and sexual inadequacy as a metaphor for the inability to cope with life in general. The big joke during the film is that The Boy Wonder is sexually impotent: "You couldn't get his rope to rise with a magic flute." The Boy Wonder's manic need to make films is a form of sexual displacement--perhaps it is the need for gratification that drives him to make "five-and-dime films" when he has been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality...
...about $7000--Steiner says the situation is "equitable." The apparent inequality is offset by the fact that there are fewer women here than men, and thus a woman has the chance to get more prize money than a man. Still, Steiner sees a "symbolic" inequality wherever sexual distinctions are made, and these restricted prizes amount to a "wart" on the face of this equitable situation...
...Theory," Marcus draws out the connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...
...maniac about keeping the house in order. Once, Gould claims, he got up to go to the bathroom at night and came back to find that she had made the bed. The movie is similarly witless throughout. There are many attempted jokes about marriage counselors, institutes for sexual behavior and breasts. Norman