The girls don't know film history
The gaze persists even without the group to do the looking—just as the male gaze persists in film even when the film is watched by someone who does not identify as male. We must take apart the whole model.
Matthew Salesses • Craft in the Real World
While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet pr
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
The upshot of taking mass culture seriously has been a growing awareness that much of what we call good taste is merely an aesthetic like any other.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
I was a person who’d watched a lot of movies, sure. I had taken a couple of film theory classes in college because it seemed like something you should do if you wore as much black as I did.