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Film Studies
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The more I watch modern cinema the more I wish they were still making midbudget movies. I thought Top Gun: Maverick was great. Is anybody else saying this? It doesn't seem like it. When I was in high school I had Hot Shots! (not Part Deux, just Hot Shots!) on my iPod Touch and I swear to God I can do that whole script off the top of my head. I would watch it--Jesus, Gretel, what is it? Fuck, you scared me. No, I don't want--no! I don't want--no. No, we'll figure it out later. No, we just had Win
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― Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
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Though
the actresses who played female boys were of all ages and performed in a vari-
ety of acting styles, they were generally small, thin, white, and photogenic, and
their performances combined boldness and vulnerability. Their femaleness al-
lowed them to convey fragility and androgynous beauty. These performances
demonstrate that cross-gender casting, which may seem like an inherently
transgressive practice to twenty-first-century scholars, can also uphold conser-
vative gender, class
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― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
