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Oh and All that Heaven Allows.


CS


On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:34 PM, christina sharpe wrote:

> Far From Heaven is Ali, Fear Eats the Soul and Imitation of Life, no?
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> Christina Sharpe
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> Christina Sharpe
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> On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Andrew Lesk wrote:
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>> Christina
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>> As you likely know, The Hours is Hayes's interpretation of  
>> Fassbinder's Ali:
>> Fear Eats the Soul, who interprets Sirk's All that Heaven Allows.  
>> Regarding the
>> interplay of aesthetics, melodrama, kitsch and gender, try the  
>> following:
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>> Lucy Fisher's essay in Play It Again Sam: Retakes on Remakes,  
>> Horton, ed.
>> Douglas Kellner's essay in Triangulated Visions, O'Sickey, ed.
>> Robert Reimer's essay in Literature/Film Quarterly 24.3 (1996).
>> Judith Butler's essay in Genders 9 (1990, Fall).
>> Barbara Mennel's essay in One Hundred Years of Masochism, Finke, ed.
>> Tina Harris's essay in Women's Studies in Communication 23.1 (2000).
>> Mary Beth Haralovich's essay in Close Viewings, Lehman, ed.
>> Barbara Klinger's classic Melodrama and Meaning. Look at the biblio.
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>> This should be a good start.
>>
>> Dr Andrew Lesk
>> Department of English
>> University of Toronto
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>> http://www.andrewlesk.com
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>>>> I'm planning to teach an extended unit on films such as The
>>>> Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio, The Hours, and Far From Heaven.   
>>>> Does
>>>> anyone have recommendations for articles or books that would be  
>>>> good
>>>> companions for the study of gender and film in the 1950s (and
>>>> somewhat specific to these films)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Christina Lane
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