watched for Mohsen‘s Seminar. Rural v.s. urban; trains; vernacular Japanese houses; oku; Westernization and its different speed with men v.s. women; industrialization v.s. tradition; kindness v.s. selfishness, etc. Layers of space; layers of emotions;
House as a kind of kinship/read and shade/whether the camera(director) having phallus/“the feminization of black gay men and the complex of racist, homophobic, misogynist, and classist constructions that belong to a larger hegemonies of oppression”/vogue dance/phantasmatic reality/justaposition of the “normal” scene and the ball