you look pretty good for a girl
I'm trying to think if the quest to make The Dancing Cavalier counts as an external quest or an internal quest. In Doughton's (1996) terms, that is (or really, wherever she got those terms; she didn't invent them). Is starring in a musical--for Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor, Don Lockwood or Cosmo Brown-- masculine ? Singin' in the Rain certainly upholds binary gender roles, pairing off men and women... well, man and woman . If we ignore Cosmo for a moment, at least. Cohan (2000) suggets that several "binarized terms... dominate the entire narrative: body/voice, image/sound, naturalness/engineering, innovation/obsolescence" (p. 56). Cohan hints at some of the issues with gender later but doesn't list male/female among the binarized terms. But, clearly, the genders are distinct and unequal in the film. Nevermind the stereotypical gender roles in the films-within-the-film, The Royal Rascal , The Duelling [sic] Cavalier , and possibly even more so,...