On Fri, 4 Jun 1993 00:28:03 -0500 Cary Alan Nathenson said: >I'd be interested in comments about other filmic representations of such a >civilization/nature-woman conflict, especially if anyone knows of films >where the repression of desire isn't the outcome. I suspect that this is >rarely accomplished without the male figure abandoning his subjectivity. >Any takers? Within mainstream film you can see this antinomy working through SPLASH (1984) with Daryl Hannah as mermaid-nature and Tom Hanks as uptight New Yorker-civilization. In that case desire and the woman are not repressed, as the man adapts to the woman's world rather than vice versa. That same year (1984) there were two other films playing off a similar opposition, but with the nature figure a man: GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES and ICEMAN. This was what I tried, rather clumsily, to articulate in a _Journal of Film and Video_ essay (fall 1985). It'd be hard to see Tarzan/Iceman as "feminized," but of course that depends on gender definition. Best of luck with your research... ---------- The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. --Joseph Conrad-- ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |