Michael K wrote: The really interesting question to me, though, is only secondarily about the 1950s. How and why has Julianne Moore become central to these nostalgic reflections on containment and nascent feminism? That is a great question. It immediately made me think of Cavell's remarks about the dependence of the comedies of remarriage on the availablilty a certain generation of actresses with Katharine Hepburn as the key figure. My first, embarrassingly fangirlish suggestion would be that Moore is full of grace and intelligence, and extremely beautiful, and maternal, in a way that is conspicuously unlike the surgically enhanced model of cyborg femininity epitomised by somebody like Meg Ryan. Would love to know what other people think.... Laura ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html