Now on YouTube–Surreal Noir by friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! In this episode she extensively discusses Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) and Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel. “Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from a picture? What about self-portraiture? How do you conjure the image of yourself? How much do you reveal? How much do you hide? The image of women in much of recorded history has so often been through the male gaze, defining women according to what value they were to him. How do women see/draw/paint/write themselves and for whom?”

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