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martha shearer

@marthashearer

asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her

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martha shearer@marthashearer· 10d

classroom on the simpsons elated after bart says the line

martha shearer@marthashearer· 11d

not like this tho!

Note that in romantic comedy resolution of the problem of non-fucking involves both a theoretic question and a pragmatic one (as in psychoanalysis). Determining why we are not fucking and overcoming the barrier by actually fucking are quite different things, though romantic comedies and their characters consistently confuse them. The theoretic answer to the question does not necessarily lead to the desired result and achievement of the desired result does not necessarily imply that the theoretic question has been answered. Perhaps it is anxiety over the problem and the desire for its pragmatic overcoming, both overdetermined, that are the mainspring of the genre. Seeking theoretic knowledge is one solution among others that are tried, with no very stric housekeeping as to which one actually works. For one thing, there is not the time, patience or mental calm necessary to try one solution at a time—the notion itself is comic (though not romantic)-all are tried at once. This is a realm in which "savage thought" and bricolage dominate, despite a surface appearance of rationality.

Although romantic comedy is about fucking and its absence, this can never be said nor referred to directly. This is perhaps the fascination of romatic comedy. It implies a process of perpetual displacement, of euphemism and indirection at all levels, a latticework of dissembling and hiding laid over what is constantly present but denied, unspoken, unshown.

martha shearer@marthashearer· 13d

this is the top review on goodreads for one of the books on the booker longlist lol

2 stars from someone called chloe and the review reads:

this is just about two people, hundreds of years apart, who are very bad at their jobs. three people if you include the author.

martha shearer@marthashearer· 19d

dare 2 dream

simpsons utopia meme

martha shearer@marthashearer· 25d

tolu is right this is nice

some nice roses in a vase on a coffee table

martha shearer@marthashearer· 29d

julianne moore in [safe] + speech bubble

martha shearer@marthashearer· Jul 17

a drag queen better have claimed this name or wtf

opened by princess labia, hence the name

martha shearer@marthashearer· Jul 16

Khan is just one of a number of new peers announced by Starmer on Thursday, a move that is likely to be criticised as he has already appointed more than any of the previous four prime ministers.

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martha shearer@marthashearer· Jul 16

interesting

genius annotation
this is about gay men having sex in the ymca.

martha shearer@marthashearer· Jul 15

figured out who thomas tuchel reminds me of

twin peaks giant

martha shearer@marthashearer· Jul 2

these are certainly all words

Smith suggested young people would miss out on important learning if they followed Tuchel’s lead and wrote excuses to schools. She told LBC’s Nick Ferrari: “I don’t want to be a killjoy, but I’ll tell you what the biggest killjoy is – young people who don’t have the learning to be able to go on and do what they need to do in life.

martha shearer@marthashearer· Jun 22

lmao

Keir Starmer is coming out.

There is loud applause from his staff and supporters.

He looks miserable.

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 31

all four films are to be released simultaneously on April 7, 2028

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 30

excuse me

classic tweet from @ameliaelizalde: every book is called 'the tiny things we know to be small' or 'the darkest wife'

"peacock original" called THE MINIATURE WIFE

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 30

her obits, however, are 95% about her ex-husband and then will slip this in

Outside of her then-husband, Lucas worked with lauded filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the mid-70s. She edited Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and supervised the edit on both Taxi Driver and New York, New York.

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 29

a labour government

neil kinnock

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 28

ah yes what shall i set as my macbook wallpaper... one of many images of dubai for some reason. or perhaps beautiful lax

cityscape wallpaper options: dubai skyline, dubai at night, dubai creek, dubai from above, dubai creek harbour, los angeles flyover, los angeles beach, los angeles airport

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 26

enough!!!

Films
Obsession (1949 film), a British thriller also released as The Hidden Room
Obsession (1954 film), a French-language crime drama
Obsession (1976 film), a psychological thriller/mystery directed by Brian De Palma
Obsession (1997 film), a Franco-German drama starring Daniel Craig
Obsession (2008 film), a Russian film starring Denis Matrosov
Obsession (2011 film), a film by Cameroonian director Achille Brice
Obsession (2015 film), the American title of Dutch film Rendez-Vous starring Loes Haverkort
Obsession (2022 film), a Nigerian drama
Obsession (2025 film), an American horror film
Ossessione ("Obsession"), a 1943 Italian crime drama
Junoon (1978 film) ("The Obsession"), a 1979 Indian drama film by Shyam Benegal
Circle of Two, 1981 Canadian drama also distributed as Obsession
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, 2005 documentary

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 24

now you have to see a post complaining about posts complaining about posts complaining about this app 👍

inception

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 18

sagejournals one day you will know my vengeance istg

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martha shearer@marthashearer· May 16

what's that

indiewire insta post on léa seydoux body-swap movie THE UNKNOWN

masked figure from the centre of the image from that insta post

THE UNKNOWN from the glasgow willy wonka disaster

martha shearer@marthashearer· May 4

i've yet to see a take here that comes anywhere near competing with this

Robin Wood in Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan:

Gays are handled more surreptitiously. Just as the 40s war movie generously included various ethnics in its platoon/bomber crew, so its 80s equivalent has its subordinate, subservient (and comic and timid) gay character, in the entirely unchallenging form of an asexual robot: CP-30, with his affected British accent, effeminate mannerisms, and harmlessly pedophile relationship with R2D2 (after all, what can robots do?). On the other hand, there is the Star Wars rendering of a gay bar, the clientele exclusively male, and all grotesque freaks.

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 25

I mean,,, this is the opening sentence

LeBron

You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife.

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 24

you've heard of "butlerian jihad" now get ready for

This reflects the way Butler uses films to craft theoretical tools in their writings, a form of spectatorship i call <i>Butlerian cinephilia</i> - a cinephilic theorization where films are instrumental in exploring how domination, subjectification, and representation work in tandem.

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 22

the preview isn't working in this skeet so isn't showing you its nice cover but look here at its nice cover

the nice cover of WOMEN & NEW HOLLYWOOD: GENDER, CREATIVE LABOR AND 1970S AMERICAN CINEMA edited by aaron hunter and me

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 22

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@why.bsky.team the "technical advisor to @bsky.app" is blocking me lol

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 14

I'm at the deli. I'm at the central intelligence agency. I'm at the combination deli & cental intelligence agency.

deli&cia food place

martha shearer@marthashearer· Apr 7

if the world still exists this is happening on 28 april and you should come if you'll be in dublin

TUESDAY 28TH APRIL, 6PM
Join us at Hodges Figgis on Tuesday 28th April from 6pm for the Launch of 'Judith Butler and Film: The Good Egalitarian, the Bad Feminist and the Ugly Others' by Dr Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz. We will have a short reading from the book by the author and a discussion with Dr Martha Shearer (UCD). All Welcome!

martha shearer@marthashearer· Mar 31

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some loser added me to an ai haters blocklist

martha shearer@marthashearer· Mar 29

could one of you Ireland Understanders explain this

Good Friday is not a public holiday. While some schools and businesses close on that day, you have no automatic entitlement to time off work on that day.