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And then yet you’ll find Hawai‘i

Jodi Kantor at the New York Times writes:
Since he was very young, Senator Barack Obama has been something of a mediator of racial concerns, shuttling between black and white worlds and trying to translate the concerns of one to the other.
But how might the Hawai‘i of Senator Obama’s youth signify outside black/white divides where the […]

“None but ourselves can free our minds…”


Channeling the Gaze

Vanity Fair is running a series of photos of current Hollywood stars in classic, iconic moments from Hitchcock’s oeuvre here. Having just taught Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in my undergrad critical theory course, I was struck by the refashioning of the male gaze. And of course, Jodie Foster models for The Birds.