Interesting that Hollywood remakes "A Star is Born" every few decades - '37, '54, '76, and now
Suggests that notwithstanding all the rhetoric on gender neutrality, the dilemmas posed by fluid gender roles, male unease with female careerism, etc remain themes that don't get dated
Suggests that notwithstanding all the rhetoric on gender neutrality, the dilemmas posed by fluid gender roles, male unease with female careerism, etc remain themes that don't get dated
For Indians it is worth noting that the film was also made in Bollywood starring Amitabh Bachchan (titled "Abhimaan" in 1973)
This makes me wonder -
If the "progressive" vision of gender neutral society were indeed the "end of history" so to speak, why are these themes not going away?
Why does "A Star is born" get remade every few decades?
If the "progressive" vision of gender neutral society were indeed the "end of history" so to speak, why are these themes not going away?
Why does "A Star is born" get remade every few decades?
The persistence of this theme suggests that the utopian vision of the Gender neutral society is a mirage of sorts.
We are not going to have an end of history. Gender roles won't vanish. And we will continue to be debating these things even in 2118
We are not going to have an end of history. Gender roles won't vanish. And we will continue to be debating these things even in 2118
