Just going through Pop Culture Detective’s work on youtube and am really impressed with his take on female tropes in pop culture. ‘Born Sexy Yesterday’ explores the trope of the naive, childlike woman in movies, think Leeloo in the Fifth Element and the mermaid in Splash, and it’s ties to colonialism.
Anyone else catching his works? I saw his exploration of masculinity in the movie ‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once’ and I thought it was brilliant.
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Yeah, I really like his videos
They’re very good explanations of different issues in media and pretty accessible to someone who might not be familiar with leftist issues
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I also like his videos on sexual assault of men as portrayed in media, the ones related to toxic relationships and the ones about masculinity