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A long day today. We co-hosted a speech tournament this weekend and today was our half. Got to campus at 6:30 in the morning, didn’t make it home until almost 10 at night. Though there was conversation here and there about movies, I didn’t get much chance to think about this movie— Singin’ in the Rain —or to do any new research. In looking at Cohan (2000), though, I noticed a line I hadn’t included when I was talking about gender . Cohan writes: The paradoxical basis of Kelly’s star image, then, is that while he expresses his virility through a dance, he also worries about losing it in dance. His typical pairing alongside a more effeminate co-star such as O’Connor gives Kelly’s masculinity its social inflection of gender—the working-class man, psychologized by his dependence on post-adolescent male friendships—while allowing for the erotic spectacle of his dancing. (p. 71) Cohan goes on to talk about Kelly’s athleticism as a sort of counter to the “erotic spectacle” but that’s...