Taking the terrible loveliness and eroticism and vulnerability of the tableau of Jenny's murdered body (and there's a whole dissertation hiding in that image about the male gaze and whose dead bodies we see and how -- such a world of difference between Jenny in a rose-petal-strewn bed and Wash impaled in his pilot's seat, dying in a moment of competence, confidence and power)
Hey! Wanna write my Problematic Media essay for me?
Because, yeah, that image is one that's On the List.
(For simplicity's sake, the list STARTS with Laura Palmer for me. Sadly, it never quite ends.)
hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
I am going to write it, but I only have the vaguest familiarity with that.
My memory is very vague, can't bring up the who said it at all, but I'm thinking late Victorian maybe?
It sounds late Victorian.
Google didn't find me much yet, but it DID find me this amazing essay on the notion at hand when applied to Blade Runner: [link]
Wow.
That's... yes. That!
Thank you Bartletts! It's from Edgar Allan Poe: "The death ... of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Hmm, that link justs gets me to the author's bio.
Hey! I was just about to post that I found that!
Also, that I feel I have lost mass goth points for only having the vague, "Eh? Sounds familiar..." response.
Fixed. It's actually [link]
(I had both open.)
