Mm, I'm familiar with the SCA thing, but I still have trouble getting away from it in the here-and-now - I think of it in the same way as Blake's dual-vision thing. I can see what they want, aspire, to be, at the same time as looking at the material culture and the signifiers attached to it. In a way, it's crippling, but interesting.
All tropes have hidden ickiness, except those that pretend to impossible utopias. I'd argue that the way to get around that is to problematize the ickiness and drag it out into the open, really.
The costume - I'm not really familiar with the screen version of the original, but it's an iconized version of Sabalom Glitz from Doctor Who.
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Date: 2009-05-09 10:47 am (UTC)All tropes have hidden ickiness, except those that pretend to impossible utopias. I'd argue that the way to get around that is to problematize the ickiness and drag it out into the open, really.
The costume - I'm not really familiar with the screen version of the original, but it's an iconized version of Sabalom Glitz from Doctor Who.