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Discourse Parlor: The spiritual questing of Corinne- the dangerous thinking daughter of Higher Ground

Annie note:  I apologize to anyone who may have noticed for the amount of time it has taken to post this Discourse Parlor on faith.  Too many days have passed since my promise of it in the last Salon. This is unacceptable, even from the most permissive, indulgent perspective.  You can be sure that the angry [ READ MORE ]

Paternity Parlor part two – Fathers and Sons and Violence.

How a man refuses violence to protect his son in Susanne Bier’s In a Better World How does a father raise a son to grow within our tangled conception of manhood?  What part of  how to be a man has altogether to do with violence?  The use of it.  Being familiar with its force and [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Discourse on Retooling fatherhood. Or how to crawl out of that sink hole.

Paternity Parlor part one.  The Lovely Bones. Let’s narrow down Dean’s question from our last Parlor, “What is it to be a man?” and just take a look at dad.  Since back before we daughters can remember a father’s role has revolved in great part round being the one who protects those too young, too [ READ MORE ]

Our Promise Parlor part two: Blue Valentine

This is the second of two Discourses from our Salon: The Fight for Women’s Promise.  The Movie Salon The Fight for Women’s Promise posted first and set out our issues.  The first Discourse on Revolutionary Road posted earlier.    And now for some thinking on Blue Valentine.   In the middle of her fight to keep her Paris promise to [ READ MORE ]

Our Promise Parlor part one: Revolutionary Road

There are two parts to our Discourse this time round.  Below’s the first centered on the film Revolutionary Road. The second with Blue Valentine at its center will post in the near.    What is it to abandon the promise one’s made to oneself?   Deep in the code of our inherited male narrative, woman as the portal [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Discourse on Womanhood’s Escape from the Reproductive Model

By way of reminder.  We are turning to the films, I Am Love, Leaving, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, as our compass for a trend, a raising of voices lately heard to mull a certain shift in what we collectively understand as the role of women.  And to run our fingers along an [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Dialogue – Questing for a heroic practice of love in Winter’s Bone

The Dialogue that follows was constructed from a written exchange inititated as a piece of writing by Salon Netizen Caryn Cline, which I responded to, and then we sent back and forth some until it became what’s posted below.  A Dialogue on Winter’s Bone “Ain’t you got no men could do this?” Winter’s Bone, 2010. [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Dialogue – Is there any love in the film Closer?

Follows is a Dialogue on the movie Closer.  Based at first on talking, this writing was built from exchanges between me, your Lookout, and fearless Parlor editor Kathleen Gyurkey, who brought the film to the Salon’s attention.  To repeat my previous Salon caveat, all this will make more sense if you’ve watched the film. A Dialogue [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Discourse on the Nature of Love in three films by Jane Campion part three, Bright Star

This is the third and final discourse on The Nature of Love in three films by Jane Campion.  The other two on The Piano and Holy Smoke are posted below this, and all three are preceded by a bit of thinking that lays the groundwork for these writings on the complexity without end we name Love. Part three of three: the Bright [ READ MORE ]

Parlor Discourse on The Nature of Love in three films by Jane Campion part one, The Piano

If you’re interested in more explanation, I posted a preamble to the thinking behind my writings posted here in a recent Interim Discourse on the Nature of Love. Part one of three:  The Piano discourse “I have not spoken since I was 6 years old,” Ada McGrath tells us from the getgo.  So the piano is her voice and the central symbol of this [ READ MORE ]

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