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I am staring into the paper, and the paper is staring back into me.

Sadly, if I were trying to write about science fiction, or insane internet fangirls, this would be a thousand times easier. Possibly because I don't feel apathy toward the source material. Unlike my feelings toward Lucy and The Piano. I feel love, cynicism, mocking and wonder (or, Ase Misses the GRRM Boat and Contemplates TV Shows), but it's rare for me to have such a flat reaction.

Okay, I lie. I think The Piano is an okay movie, but the academic derivatives are liberal arts craziness. The authors need better thesauri and some clarification on the difference between useful communications of new information and writing because you want to make tenure. The male gaze is way overdiscussed, and needs to be countered by some serious mocking, and possibly some witticisms on women objectifying men by thinking they can change them. There's probably a really evil parody paper to be written on how men just want to possess the bodies of the women they objectify, but women want to possess and transform the men they objectify. With some side notes on transformation as destruction, and violation of interior space, and how this all makes women-created structures more evil and soul-destroying than the patriarchy. Consider, say, A Fire Upon the Deep and Doomsday Book (conveniently tied for the 1993 Hugo), and wait for reactions. (What I really want to do is something with The Handmaid's Tale, Cyteen and Native Tongue, but that's probably a skewed data set to analyze.)

Actually, that's not an entirely bad idea. How women and men write violence and the impacts of violence in fiction. Compare and contrast with real life PTSD data or something, and see what happens.

This is not getting my paper written. Stupid paper!

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Date: 2006-05-11 07:53 pm (UTC)
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The Piano is a fabulous movie! Wibble. Not having read anything written upon the movie, I must worry and wonder. I love this film. It had a bit of everything tossed into it. iamalsocompletelyinlustwithharveykeitelokaythanx.

The Handmaid's Tale creeped me out big time when I read it about ten years ago. It would be worse now.

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Date: 2006-05-12 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ase.livejournal.com
There's a lot of grief about objectification, women's pleasure in looking, and musical instruments as being loadedwithsymbolismOMG! My eyes start rolling around the time looking at people becomes a one-way or mutual erotic pleasure and silent mermaids as metaphorical whatever. Sometimes a woman throwing herself overboard is just fruitbat crazy, and not a metaphor for the return to the maternal womb, no?

(This is why I fail at liberal arts. Give me my test tubes and Pasteur pipettes over film analysis any day.)

The Handmaid's Tale just infuriated me. I profoundly disagreed with the worldbuilding. I didn't buy the monoculture as presented. Also, everyone needed to run away to Canada much earlier in the book. That the conclusion inspired me to mutter about pretentious artiste attitudes was almost gravy by then.

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Date: 2006-05-11 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herewiss13.livejournal.com
With some side notes on transformation as destruction, and violation of interior space, and how this all makes women-created structures more evil and soul-destroying than the patriarchy.

Umbridge!!

You really need to write that paper. You'd be burned at the stake as a misogynist, but it sounds amazing. ;-)

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Date: 2006-05-12 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ase.livejournal.com
No, I don't, because I'd have to actually read Native Tounge first, and it would probably just annoy me. You should write it. ;-)

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