... Otis discusses Thomas Mann, not a physician, whose Death in Venice "mocks the very assumption that internal drives or foreign peoples can be controlled or excluded from one's definition of ...'self'" (p. 162). In her conclusion, subtitled "Identity in the Age of AIDS," Otis proposes that we "abandon our anachronistic notions of boundaries, so that we may begin to build a new concept of identity upon the connections we once struggled to deny" and "that we begin to reconstruct our identities in a manner more appropriate to an era of retroviruses and global communications" (p. 173).
Aspersions of this sort also became fighting words for a later generation of feminist academic critics personified on the Criterion discs by Susan White, who provides commentary for three of the four ...films, and whose The Cinema of Max Ophuls: The maddeningly circular progression of love, and the film's own narrative peregrinations, is personified by a carousel that Walbrook operates on a blatantly artificial streetscape-a protracted tracking shot transports him from a foggy sound stage to a phantasmic Vienna that becomes the locus of amorous frisson.
The work of turn-of-the-century Austrian Jewish dramatist Arthur Schnitzler is compared with that of the contemporary playwright Tony Kushner, author of 'Angels in America.' Schnitzler, in his time, ...was reviled for writing plays on themes of sexual immorality; Kushner's work treats gay themes.
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