A student of mine recently asked me a challenging question. He looked me in the eyes and asked, “what is the so-called Romantic Comedy, as a genre, predicated on?” After a long pause I responded as follows: Hollywood’s romantic comedy, presuming he meant Hollywood, which he did, is predicated on sentimental love. As Erich […]
Month: January 2008
DIALOGUE & TRANSFORMATION
I had been thinking about the 1960s. History gives us a picture of the left challenging the establishment with fervor. Although it is opaque, the same history reveals that after the violent response by the powerful establishment (e.g., killing of students in Kent State) in the Anglo American world, the left started to look […]