⚯ Reading Notes | Interview with an Alleged Vampire

I read this profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine today. I found a something things in it that I want to remember.

Describing the work of film scholar Jeanine Basinger:

In one of her books, A Woman’s View, she espoused the artistic merits of the woman’s picture, a genre that predominated in the middle of the 20th century. The heroines of these films led fabulous lives as successful single girls in the workplace until just before the closing credits, when they gave it all up for marriage. Seen from one angle, these movies promoted sexist conventions; from another, they celebrated women’s liberation. Basinger argued they did both, and she perceived this ambiguity made them interesting because it reflected the messiness of the human mind.

I think this is a good example of how to engage in what the theorist Eve Sedgwick calls paranoid and reparative reading.