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Av Kjetil Korslund

1. October notified jeg Knut Kolnar's book Man Beast. Desire in modern movies. My main point was that Kolnar is tendentious in his approach to the films he describes. He finds trouble with the postmodern male identity everywhere.

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

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