1. I too am puzzled by You-Got-Mail-gate because @meaganmday's reading of the film strikes me as the common sense one. In fact I remember making similar arguments nearly 20 years ago!https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1319361687120695296 …
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3. Almost all romantic comedies have an economic subtext because marriage is a union of economic units (households) as well an emotional union. Jane Austen, the greatest of all writers of romantic comedies, knew this & was explicit about the financial status of her characters!
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4. The deeper roots of a film like You Got Mail are in the traditional binary in fiction between the man as unregulated activity (whether sexual or economic) and woman as the domesticating force, using emotion to temper grasping appetite.
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5. It's weird that my economic reading of romantic comedies ran -- without controversy -- in a very conservative newspaper (the National Post) while a similar argument appearing in a socialist magazine gets people upset.
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this read also works with american frontier mythology. woman as natural world (artsy, low-paying) and man as economic, rational european and the need for each to merge with the other.
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This is the entire ecosystem of NPR's non-news programming. From the 3rd generation ivy league performing arts grad performers to the management consulting donors that fund them.
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"fusing traditional gender archetypes and Keynesian economics" ...what is the relevance of Keynes here?
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I see these movies as advocating the animal spirits of capitalist being regulated and channelled for the larger interest of the common good of the couple rather than run unchecked in the marketplace.
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Some Jordan Peterson in that final line
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