Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third point puts the question of poor advertising aside and addresses a related concern of mine. I oppose the type of sexual relations that the product supposedly facilitates. Here I am assuming that the ad was directed to the single male (implicitly involved in sexual relations...
...arguable, but the argument is stimulating. It may well be that Franz Liszt was the first performer to court-and then find himself victimized by-celebrity akin to that accorded a rock star. Adolescents swooning at his concerts; the rich, famous and equally gifted vying eagerly for his attention; sexual swag collected at every stop on his endless concert tours-it all fits with what we know about contemporary life at the top of the charts...
...easier to relate to, or less exciting"), Aurora gaily assembles and mistreats a colorful retinue of suitors including a retired general, an Italian tenor and a bashful oil millionaire who lives in his white Lincoln. She views their constant proposals of marriage skeptically. "Men have never distinguished themselves for sexual fidelity," she says. "The poor things have short attention spans...
...flawed execution of good intentions that can be minimized in interpreting the film. Her inability to carry out the comic project she creates for herself in the first half of film shows that the fantasy situation is more compelling to her than any understanding of the dilemmas of traditional sexual roles...
Wertmuller's fundamental lack of sympathy with feminist ideas parallels her conception of the relation between politics and love. In each of her films, Wertmuller shows men whose political ideas are contradicted by their emotional and sexual behavior: in Love and Anarchy Giancarlo Giannini fails to shoot Mussolini because he falls in love; in the Seduction of Mimi his machismo belies his communism and ultimately forces him to collaborate with the Mafia; in Swept Away he forsakes his peasant wife and children for the socialite Raffaella. Though Wertmuller sees herself as a political filmmaker, the emotional message of her films...