Characteristics of the Stag Film Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film … My research established the following as generic characteristics of the Stag Film: Social bonding of exclusively male audience; Heterosexual expression of the male group desire for the female body; Designed to arouse; Absence of sound, […]
Category: Topical Comment
As an opinionated woman I, from time to time, express my opinions …
Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film ~ Voyeurism
Voyeurism Occasional observations about the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film. Gertrud Koch on voyeurism A standard view of voyeurism assumes it is a component of genital pleasure satisfying the role of ‘foreplay’, on an understanding that consumers of pornography will feel cheated when they don’t get what they expect. Gertrud Koch considers that […]
On what basis should public funding to the arts be provided?
On what basis should public funding to the arts be provided? The governing principle that declares that arts funding should be provided from the public purse can be traced to the rule in Roman law that stated: Quod omnes tangit, ab omnes approbari debet or ‘what concerns all, should be approved by all’. This can […]
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory (draft only) It’s Sunday and mid December, a time when things happen. Today is a rather special day in that our seven year old son is playing the Virgin Mary in his school nativity play to be staged during the chapel service. This will happen between […]
The Boys and the Biff ~ NZ Police & ‘Serving the Crown’
On Monday 05 February 2007 I had the bad luck to be assaulted. Why does this warrant even the slightest interest in a country where child killings are commonplace, gang-style executions are frequent, mindless drug-fuelled murders are perpetrated in corner dairies and assaults are as common as grains of sand on the beach? Firstly, because […]
When the Cicadas Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) ~ Regaining Control Through Self-Harm
I’ve published this before but, today being the 21st of April and To Write Love on her Arms Day (TWLOHA), I thought I’d give it another whirl. I’ve found a great, but not exclusively successful, pseudo-addiction to take the place of self-harming so I am largely recovered. But from time to time … and […]
Saoirse ~ Without Freedom and Liberty, Life Is Just Skin and Bone
It was the second time I’d tried to find his grave. Having travelled twelve thousand miles to sit with him and reflect on how our ‘lives’ had crossed I wasn’t going to give up and go home with this ambition unfulfilled, with just some solo, dangling conversation to reflect on. Twelve months before I […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the then Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none […]
Bernard Pivot’s ~ or otherwise James Lipton’s ~ Questionnaire
Fans of Inside the Actor’s Studio are familiar with James Lipton’s list of questions, which he poses to each of his guests at the end of an interview. Lipton always gives credit for this list to French talk show host Bernard Pivot, who hosted Apostrophe’s from 1975–1990 and Bouillon de Culturefrom 1990–2001.He often […]
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