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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
by David Thomson

Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
by David Thomson

Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
by David Thomson

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Perverse

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Thomson, D. (2019). Perverse. In Thomson, D. Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Knopf, pp. 240-254

homily (en)

(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons

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If 1940–41 was Hollywood’s peak (it had many glories), was it because a film exploded the homilies of romance in favor of flirtation and the joyful cynicism of journalism without much faith in its supposed grail, the Truth?

—p.243 by David Thomson
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If 1940–41 was Hollywood’s peak (it had many glories), was it because a film exploded the homilies of romance in favor of flirtation and the joyful cynicism of journalism without much faith in its supposed grail, the Truth?

—p.243 by David Thomson
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supercilious (en)

(adjective) coolly and patronizingly haughty

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a supercilious gentleman who carries a sword stick and has a flashy scar on his cheek

—p.246 by David Thomson
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a supercilious gentleman who carries a sword stick and has a flashy scar on his cheek

—p.246 by David Thomson
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