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Insula Dei
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« on: October 17, 2011, 04:05:54 PM »

What's the political slant of Torture Porn, in your opinion?

(Saw was pretty good in that genre, but the sequels are one of the great artistic tragedies of our era.)
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 07:19:16 AM »

For the most part, right-wing, even though this is rarely exactly or entirely intentional. This goes back a long way; Dracula is full of some deeply unpleasant implicit arguments and values.

This. Anyone willing for some H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe quotes on race?

That's 50% of the charm, though. Who knows what people will think of the name of your cat in a 150 years time?

Anyway, of course the example of this tendency that I myself find the most charming to encounter is the rampant anti-Catholicism in the Gothic novel. Though this is indeed nowhere as bad as the way Stoker writes about the Gypsies.

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