tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post643937650916308135..comments2023-07-09T07:45:50.552-07:00Comments on Socialism and/or barbarism: No Country for Old Men Or Somewhat Younger Men But Plenty For Teen Girls and The Libidinal Circuits of ShapeshiftersECWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-23702872478185590072010-12-28T06:08:17.858-08:002010-12-28T06:08:17.858-08:00Entirely - Ginger Snaps (and GS 2) is a deeply und...Entirely - Ginger Snaps (and GS 2) is a deeply underrated, whip-smart film. There are people who study it far more than I do, but from what I do know - based in part off C. Walker Bynum's stuff - the lycanthrope is a fraught figure, not least of all because it doesn't remotely stand in for the same issue across time. That is, despite the work that the lineage culminating in Teen Wolf and the Twilight series is trying to do to make, the equation is not always, or even often, one of unbridled sex urge/becoming pubescent = wolfishness. In Underworld, the racial undertones remain fierce, and in the Chaney Wolfman films, the far greater emphasis is on amnesia and relative immortality: it's not knowing what you do other than knowing that you likely won't be killed doing it. Therein their sadness, which ranges from a petty pathos of Laney trying to get laid (as in, you aren't wolfishly sexual, you use the emo angst of being a man who "doesn't deserve to live" to get laid) from a real wracking melancholy.ECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-57771822366414401762010-12-27T12:39:53.555-08:002010-12-27T12:39:53.555-08:00It hadn't occurred to me that "young woma...It hadn't occurred to me that "young woman discovering sexuality amongst senseless occurrences and things that keep changing species" was as much of a genre as it is... Don't forget about the delightful Ginger Snaps 1/2 (and the less-delightful Ginger Snaps 3), Canada's contribution to the sexuality==lycanthropy equation.sczttnoreply@blogger.com