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Gender without discretion

Book review written by Kjetil Korslund
The male animal – Desire in modern film
Forfatter: Knut Kolnar
Forlag: Spartacus Forlag
A horrifying example of how bad it can go when using a fashionable academic theory as a map, and trying to adapt the terrain accordingly.

Male research is by no means an attack on women's research, it is rather a pat on the shoulder. Common to both types of gender researchers is that they are looking for gender high and low. Just as one was looking for "race" in the 1930s. There will always be problems associated with making one (of many) qualities the culture key itself. You look and you look and you find and you find.

I man beast Knut Kolnar comments on a bunch of films, mainly Siste tango i paris, Falling Down, Fight Club, American Psycho, Nattsvermeren, Alt om min far og Romance. Most of these films show extreme men in activity, and Kolnar believes that they can say something about what that means. . .

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Kjetil Korslund
Historian of ideas and regular critic in Ny Tid.

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