Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

C magazine - Contemporary Feminisms issue

This new C issue is amazing. I am floored after only reading the first article on how Lady Gaga appropriates camp to critique the celebrity culture which Gaga herself is part of (the article is by Jen Hutton). Accepting some MTV award this year, Gaga thanked 'god and the gays'.

Deborah Root's poignant piece of writing on Hale Tenger's Strange Fruit also resonates within me:
The piece is extremely beautiful, yet it evokes a certain sad yearning: for innocence, for an undamaged universe. This vision of loss, and the gravity of human experience expressed in this work, has absorbed Tenger's interest for many years. Yet there is no cynicism. Strange Fruit asks for a kind of compassion, and a recognition of the preciousness of the world we inhabit. What creates problems are political and national entities, which turn the Earth on its head. (p. 10)
Cmagazine104, Winter 2009

Saturday, December 5, 2009

published film reviews

My Star Trek review is published in the YU Free Press alternative news magazine:
vol. 2, iss. 2, p. 18

and my old Låt den Rätte Komma In/Let the Right One In review, also published in the same magazine:
vol. 1, iss. 3, p. 23