textually mediated memory
Professor Browne has asked us to come to class with an artifact today dealing with public memory. Since I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Milk over the last few months, esp. in regards to queer activism and its relationship to its past, I thought I’d “bring in” this trailer to the film:
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Huh. To watch that trailer, you’d think the film (and Milk’s life) had a happy ending.
Reminds me of the time I heard two students at Illinois talking about Titanic:
1: Did you like it?
2: Yeah, but I hated the ending.