Excellent Article on Boys Don't Cry
So...I have decided to make more of an effort to keep up with scholarship that is published online. You might have noticed that I've added a block of links to online journals on rhetoric and feminism. I was looking at one of those articles tonight in Genders titled "Curing Boys Don't Cry" by Carol Siegel. Siegel critiques the film for its casting (Teena and Nissen are supposed to be around the same age, but the actors playing them are too far apart in age, making the dynamic less true-to-life), and she critiques representations of masculinity in the film and the choice of a song by The Cure as the film's title--it's somewhat of a misappropriation on Kimberly Peirce's part, Siegel implies, since The Cure is making a different argument about masculinity. Definitely an article Darren would be into.
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