... constraining of social transgression more generally, punishing Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood) for the sins of his parents and wider community in a way that can be read fruitfully through Jacques Derrida's “Plato's Pharmacy,” the film produces a narrative of profound conservatism even as it courts progressive...

...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...

..., suggesting that the tough girl image mobilizes femininity to affectively strengthen conservatism, whiteness, and homeland in the face of the pandemic. Staging a fantasy of impunity, the tough girl intimates the invincible conservative body in opposition to the porous emotionality of feeble liberals...

... and we’ve been through a great deal of pain, but it’s worth it, because we have given birth to the rekindling of the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Look, you’re here!62 Like the “mothers of conservatism” featured in Nickerson’s book, McCabe claimed the authority...

... censorship, particularly when it comes to all things queer. That there is a dearth of filmic representation of homosexuality suggests a strong Chinese social conservatism toward the representation of alternative sexuali- ties on the screen. But this conservatism was a twentieth-century...

... rhetoric of compassionate conservatism in Crash (dir. Paul Haggis, US, 2004). The political theorization of the spectator also offers some advantages over the psychoanalytic and cognitivist theorizations of the film spectator. These theoretical projects appeared to come to a standstill after...

... conservatism wherein the ameliorative labors undertaken by the Andrews characters have been roundly interpreted as working toward a political renovation of the traditional patriarchal family that plays out and allays counterfeminist anxieties by renaturalizing “the father’s...

... comedies and their artistic, commercial, and historical surroundings might be explained by the persistence of artistic cliches and the conservatism of the enter• tainment business. Though four of these seven television programs pre• viously existed as radio serials, radio...

... films more generally that beyond the surface of sexual liberation and camp, one finds the political apathy of pasotismo [indifference], sexism, and ultimately a conservative morality. Pedro Lange- Churión, Pedro Almodóvar s La piel que habito: Of Late Style and Erotic Conservatism, Bulletin...

... death and the Flowers disclosures as executions: “Bill, I’m so sorry. We’ve had two executions this week, haven’t we?” (41). 53. Janet R. Jakobsen notes that “Mrs. Clinton’s own movement toward conservatism can be traced through a number of issues, including her recent move toward...

... experiences of family life than were other television programs: it seemed-more-real to them, Real-seem- ingness is thus quite different from the politics of MacCabe’s classic realist text whose conservatism stems from his theorization of the subjected reader as unable...

... chauvinism and conservatism articulated by the political right. Aside from the ironic fact that such a moral stand on the part of a film genre (sensa- tionalist suspense) that exploits and profits from its status as “low” popular media (as opposed to the “high” cultural...

... voiceover narration also opens up, within the films, points of resistance to this ideological conservatism. At first glance, the noir voiceover seems to do exactly the opposite, to establish within the text a single over-riding male narrational perspective that appears to dominate all other...

... around current issues or topics in the realm of the popular. Quips about the popular have “intro- duced” Roseanne Barr, Vanna White, Spike Lee, Milli Vanilli, Debra Norville, Jane Pauley, and a host of others into the show. The dangers of (and conservatism inherent in) a too-easy slippage...

... or not) it is because it blends in so harmoniously - at times - with the chorus of new conservatisms. This is what makes it an issue for fem- inists to know how to know how to read: for in the interweavings of new non-Feminisms and new /old anti-feminisms, there are moments of juxta- 55 position...

... the film lends to paternal dynamics, signaling a rejection of the patrilinearity Williams views in an affirmative light, since “a queer critique of this gender conservatism connects the intersecting references to these liberal patrimonies and yet performs refusals of them.” 5 Both Williams and Galt...

... York: Monthly Review, 1971), 162. 8. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 133. 9. Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (London: Routledge, 1992), 81. 10. Brian Massumi...

... or its famili al base. Instead, the consol idated fam ily, with TV as its tool, seemed to triumph over critical melod ramas. Mu lvey concludes that the swing to political conservat ism and the reposi tioning of wo men in the home gave ord er to the oppos itions public/private...

.... In the same manner that scholars like Jane Tompkins and Linda Williams have recuper- ated the sentimental novel and the melodramatic mode as instru- ments for political change, the conservatism of nostalgia might also be productively reappraised.16 Why not seek political refuge...

.... The Forgotten Man  •  107 33. Jürgen Habermas, “The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies,” in The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate, ed. and trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press...