>I just saw it with a friend last night: it was his second time. I find it
>amusing that we leftists always find ourselves arguing over whether
>cultural products like this are 'more' subversive or 'more' hegemonic, when
>the answer, as Eve Sedgwick points out, is almost always: "kinda
>subversive, kinda hegemonic."
When I met Slavoj Zizek at a party a few weeks ago, he said something like: "All this cultural stuff is a dead end. We look at some film noir and see a counterhegemonic subtext. Nonsense! We should be doing political economy instead."
Doug