Far From Heaven is Ali, Fear Eats the Soul and Imitation of Life, no? Christina Sharpe ----------------------------------------------------------------- Christina Sharpe Associate Professor Department of English Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 [log in to unmask] Office: 617.627.23 On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Andrew Lesk wrote: > Christina > > 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: > > 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. > > This should be a good start. > > Dr Andrew Lesk > Department of English > University of Toronto > > http://www.andrewlesk.com > > >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> ---- >> > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > 77 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html