A different sort of Valentine's Day celebration.

[chieur]

While I love bad poetry as much as the next guy, here is instead the email I just sent my Intro to Gender Studies class. It's a follow up of what we were talking about in class today.

Subject: [Intro to Gender] For your internet viewing pleasure.

Body:

Also known as the patented {chieur}-Laura Mulvey Clipshow of Fabulousness. (There's a longer version, but this will suffice for now. If you want more, more, more, let me know. I'll be happy to feed the need.)

"Hot Voodoo," from BLONDE VENUS, Josef von Sternberg (1932)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auvWwVY0fbE

"By a Waterfall," from FOOTLIGHT PARADE, Busby Berkeley (1933)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=707VxB-ek4Q

"Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, Howard Hawks (1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlgywZZyCBg
(Pay attention to the Youtube title for this clip! Also, contrary to popular opinion, the 50s were WEIRD.)

These are all kind of embarrassingly exuberant. I have a deep and abiding love for all of them. Please, don't tell me if you have anything less than absolute adoration for them. It will break my heart.

Happy valentine's day!

{/cheiur}