If it's political art and *doesn't* color outside lines, it's kinda useless politically by definitipn, isn't it?
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my experience with painters suggests perception of artists being personally liberal is exaggerated - it's way weirder than that
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Culture war lines are clearest in fiction I think. Esp genre fiction like sci-fi. Literary fiction to lesser degree.
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with culture war implications blurred so everybody (women) can appreciate them without guilt
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Ok, romance I don't know. Mystery: cozy=conservative, procedural=liberal. Funny (Psych, Monk)=liberal.
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There's also psycho-mystery (Dexter) and vigilante (Dirty Harry) mysteries that are conservative
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the point of mysteries is formulaic predictability with only the tiniest hints of surprise at predictable moments
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you can put progressive window dressing on it but the form is inherently conservative, like porn
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I agree form is conservative. All classical narrative is conservative: it must branch-diverge/branch-converge


