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Introduction to Roland Barthes's Mythologies: Semiotics Part 2
This video provides an introduction to Roland Barthes's book "Mythologies," emphasizing the book's status as a work of semiotics. The content delves into the semiotic analysis of signs, exploring the concept of "Myth" and its application to cultural elements.
The first part of the video examines the chapter entitled "Myth Today," going over Barthes's example of the semiotic analysis of cultural "myths," in which he analyzes a magazine cover featuring a Black child saluting the French flag.
In the second part of the video, I offer my own example of a semiotic analysis of the cultural myths associated with wine and beer as a way of illustrating the kind of analysis that Barthes conducts throughout the first part of his book. This analysis of beer and wine touches upon gendered associations with wine and beer in the American context and the implications of the "Beer Question" in politics.
This video is the second entry in a series on semiotic analysis:
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An Introduction to Semiotics
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This video serves as an introduction to semiotics, focusing on Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic theory. The aim of the video is to show how the principles of Saussure's theory of language would be attractive to the semiotics of mass culture practiced by Roland Barthes. The video first delves into Saussure's key ideas, emphasizing two major claims: the arbitrary nature of the signifier-signifi...
Robin Wood's "An Introduction to the American Horror Film" / "American Nightmare"
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In this video, I provide an overview of film critic Robin Wood's essay "An Introduction to the American Horror Film" (1979). Parts of this essay are also published under the name "American Nightmare" and "The Return of the Repressed." This essay is considered one of the most influential works of horror film scholarship. Films discussed as examples include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper), I...
Introduction to the French New Wave
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This video introduces the film movement known as the French New Wave, with an emphasis on the historical conditions of the movement as well as the major published writings associated with the thought of the French New Wave. Topics discussed include Cahiers du Cinema and auteur theory. Written works discussed include Francois Truffaut's "A Certain Tendency in French Cinema" and Alexandre Astruc'...
Introduction to Italian Neorealism
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This video provides an overview of the film movement known as Italian Neorealism. It begins with some historical background and then examines the core aesthetic characteristics of the movement, with a special emphasis on some of the narrative innovations of the movement, including the use of dead time, chance events, a lack of narrative causality, and a lack of narrative closure. Filmmakers exa...
Un Chien Andalou (1929) and Surrealist Cinema
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In this video, the second in a series on Surrealism and cinema, I provide an analysis of the film Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, 1929), perhaps the most well-known and influential film associated with the Surrealist art movement. After providing a brief introduction to the film, I examine the film's narrative conventions in the context of surrealist art conventions, paying clo...
Introduction to Surrealism and Surrealist Cinema
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This video is the first in a series on Surrealist Cinema. The first part of the video starts with some basic definitions of Surrealism, then moves onto historical context, and then spends a majority of the time examining the aesthetic characteristics of surrealist painting. The second part of the video introduces the topic of Surrealist cinema by exploring how and why the Surrealist artists wer...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: From Caligari to Hitler
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This video is the third in a series on German Expressionism. It provides an overview of the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920), focusing on allegorical interpretations of its plot and themes of authority and obedience. Special attention is paid to Frankfurt School theorist Siegfried Kracauer's reading of the film from his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler. Finally, the video turns t...
German Expressionism's Influences
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In this video, part of a series on German Expressionism, I discuss some of the ways that German Expressionist cinema influenced later films. The video begins with a brief discussion of Film Noir and Horror film as the two canonical Hollywood genres most immediately influenced by German Expressionism. Then, I look at two moments from Hollywood films Touch of Evil and Barton Fink that exemplify t...
Introduction to German Expressionist Cinema
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This video is the first in a series on the film movement known as German Expressionism. The video begins with a general overview of "expressionism" as a modernist artistic movement, looking in particular at some examples from painting. Then the video examines some general historical conditions of German Expressionist cinema as well as some of the most notable aesthetic characteristics of the mo...
Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed
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This video provides an introduction to Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film. This introduction focuses on three topics: the relationship between Cavell's realism and Ordinary Language Philosophy, the relation between Cavell's realism and philosophical skepticism, and the role that art criticism plays in the book's arguments.
2 Modes of Film Analysis: Poetics vs Hermeneutics
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In this video, I discuss two distinct approaches to the analysis of artworks: poetics and hermeneutics. I'm drawing the distinction from Jonathan Culler's book Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. First, I provide examples of the difference between poetics and hermeneutics by analyzing a clip from the film The Shining (Kubrick, 1980). Then, I look more broadly at where poetics-centric an...
The Four Levels of Meaning in Film Interpretation
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This video provides an overview of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's account of the four levels of meaning in films and artworks, which is laid out in their textbook Film Art. The four levels of meaning originates in David Bordwell's book Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in Film Interpretation. The video goes over each of the four levels referential, implicit, explicit, and symptomati...
Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and Psychoanalytic Theory
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This video provides a closer look at the psychoanalytic underpinning's of Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," a major work in film studies best known for the concept of the "male gaze." The video looks closely at the second paragraph of the essay, which summarizes a number of major principles from the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. In particul...
Christian Metz's The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
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This video offers a brief introduction to Christian Metz's The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema, providing an overview of the general aims of the book and offering a closer look at the section entitled "Identification, Mirror."
Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of Film
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Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of Film
Siegfried Kracauer's "The Mass Ornament," Explained
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Siegfried Kracauer's "The Mass Ornament," Explained
Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 3: The Frame
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Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 3: The Frame
Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 2: The Movement-Image Ch. 1
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Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 2: The Movement-Image Ch. 1
Gilles Deleuze's Movement-Image and Time-Image, Explained
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Gilles Deleuze's Movement-Image and Time-Image, Explained
How Cinematography in It Follows (2014) Challenges Slasher Horror
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How Cinematography in It Follows (2014) Challenges Slasher Horror
Slasher Horror and Film Form: Killer POV and the Jump Scare
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Slasher Horror and Film Form: Killer POV and the Jump Scare
Introduction to Film Genre, Part 1
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Introduction to Film Genre, Part 1
Andre Bazin's "The Myth of Total Cinema"
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Andre Bazin's "The Myth of Total Cinema"
Art Cinema Narration, Part 2: Moonlight
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Art Cinema Narration, Part 2: Moonlight
Hito Steyerl's "In Defense of the Poor Image"
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Hito Steyerl's "In Defense of the Poor Image"
Digital Photography, Truth Claims, and C.S. Peirce's Indexicality
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Digital Photography, Truth Claims, and C.S. Peirce's Indexicality
What is Art Cinema Narration?: In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
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What is Art Cinema Narration?: In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
What is Classical Hollywood Narration?
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What is Classical Hollywood Narration?
Plot Vs Story
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Plot Vs Story

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @ExOrbit1980
    @ExOrbit1980 15 годин тому

    Hello! Thank you! I had a great time. I was wondering if you ever made the videos about shot and montage? I can't seem to find them if they exist. Thanks again

  • @straussbolkonsky
    @straussbolkonsky День тому

    what happens with transgenderism in this case? considering that if I have been performing as a "man" or in a manly way I feel like a man, then why would I change or have a desire to be the opposite gender? By this logic gender is just masculine/feminine right? Like if I as a man act womanly then in that moment I'm actually "being a woman"?

  • @xanxaamaral8636
    @xanxaamaral8636 3 дні тому

    thank you for the explanation!

  • @paolozapata8392
    @paolozapata8392 5 днів тому

    Thank you very much, great video. Creative, informative, clear and entertaining.

  • @calibratedape7044
    @calibratedape7044 8 днів тому

    This is so insightful. I try to understand various gender theories for some time now, and as you said there is a lot of misconceptions rooted even in examples Butler gave herself. This explanation (and previous episode) were both in depth and compacted very well. Thanks! Side note: UA-cam's algorithm can be super useful if one trains it correctly ;)

  • @TheSoho1981
    @TheSoho1981 9 днів тому

    Thank you for the lessons. It would be much appreciated if you could add a lesson on Thomas Elsaesser's Film Theory (Through The Senses)

  • @samareshdas369
    @samareshdas369 11 днів тому

    I am a student of English literature from India. Bunch of thanks ✨ ✨ ✨ for making such an awesome video on this essay. My doubts got cleared because of this.

  • @Yodakaycool
    @Yodakaycool 11 днів тому

    Ty. You make it so easy to understand.

  • @cosimosidoti5694
    @cosimosidoti5694 11 днів тому

    according to you, can we apply any of these concepts to social media images? I see many similarities and I am thinking to do so.

  • @JasonKay-tm2qj
    @JasonKay-tm2qj 14 днів тому

    Ty

  • @HiLaToya
    @HiLaToya 14 днів тому

    This was soooooo good!

  • @TheSoho1981
    @TheSoho1981 15 днів тому

    Thank you for your videos. It is just very ironic that Ari Folman's (the director) words about the ongoing war in Gaza oppose his thesis in this film about fact and documentation. When he talks about October 7th, he refers to beheaded babies, which has been proven to be misinformation by several investigations. It seems that the filmmaker is not truly honest in his narrative in the film. The film is emphasizing the importance of accurate historical documentation, personal accountability, and truth but it seems the director himself doesn't believe in it. See the Guardian article on what he said on November 3rd, 2023.

  • @x16881
    @x16881 16 днів тому

    Here an extract of an article in The Economist about her last book "Who's afraid of gender": The problem is that pretty soon, the author leaves the path of gay-rights advocacy and disappears down an ideological rabbit hole. Soon after critiques of “the so-called facts of sex”, the tq+ overwhelms the lgb. The result is a stir-fry of disingenuous provocations, served up with a large portion of post-modern word salad. The reader is left wondering how Butler ever became so influential. Butler smears the growing army of liberal-minded women who oppose these views on sex and gender, including J.K. Rowling, as hysterical right-wingers allied with the pope, Mr Trump and Vladimir Putin. Soon the author descends into the quicksand of intersectionality, where all oppressions overlap, accusing people who criticise the Butler perspective of buttressing “white supremacy”. By the end, all opponents are extremists. The words “fascism” and “fascist” appear nearly 70 times. The book is a lesson in how well-meaning activism can overreach. The author has lent intellectual credibility to a theory that has, as recently revealed in the Cass Review commissioned about England’s youth-gender services, caused harm to many young people, some of whom are autistic, depressed or simply gay. Channelling Butler’s theories, some activists are labelling those who oppose giving minors cross-sex hormones as “bigots”."

  • @craigjohnson4063
    @craigjohnson4063 18 днів тому

    WHAT EFFECT IS USED ON THAT VIDEO OF THE TRAIN THAT TURNS IT ONLY BLACK AND WHITE?

  • @Marshmallow_ladle
    @Marshmallow_ladle 19 днів тому

    Thanks dude 👍

  • @leafsounds8263
    @leafsounds8263 20 днів тому

    Gender cannot be separated from biological determinism, as a product of reason. Intellect is an instrument of nature's will, gender is simply a combination of what we have historically expected from gender, what things we are most attracted to, and in this we can still see with the greatest certainty the power of nature's will and evolution. Lust speaks for itself, we can see the same patterns of beauty throughout the ages that were related to the sign of genetic health and strength, if we are not talking about the gluttonous baroque nobility. See what's still in the spotlight. Intellect does not stand at the pinnacle of existence, but blind will. We cannot think of the intellect and its products apart from the motive power of everything. Lies and sophistry are not opinions and must be condemned as such. This is not philosophy, but politics.

  • @facusmendoza1061
    @facusmendoza1061 21 день тому

    I like the way that pops spins John Goodman did a great job there

  • @t1ago
    @t1ago 21 день тому

    your videos are amazing man

  • @amafirenze-vi1uh
    @amafirenze-vi1uh 22 дні тому

    Hi from Italy. While its obvious that neorealism was influenced by soviet and franch movies (authors like Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Renoir and Carnè), some say early Yazushiro Ozu also influence d it. Since Ozu's movies were not released in Italy not even in Venice film festival, main authors like Rossellini, De Sica or Visconti never mentioned watching them and also no Italian essay reports Ozu's influence, I think there's no connection of them with neorealism. What do you think?

    • @filmandmediastudieschannel
      @filmandmediastudieschannel 16 днів тому

      I haven't done any research on the Italian reception of Ozu, so you certainly would know better than me based on what you're saying here. But I'd say there's a big difference between saying that Ozu is an 'influence' - which is a historical/empirical claim - and saying that Ozu is a 'precursor' to Italian Neorealism, which is merely a claim about aesthetic similarity. Ozu's "An Inn in Tokyo" is a good candidate for a 'precursor' given its themes. And the philosopher Gilles Deleuze will imply that Ozu and the Italian Neorealists were doing something similar in terms of how they overturn classical Hollywood narration. But also I'm kind of interested in questioning the legacy of thinking of Ozu's movies as slow, meditative, spiritual, undramatic, etc. that we get from folks like Paul Schrader (and in a sense, Deleuze). There's this recently translated book on Ozu by the famed critic Hasumi that, I've heard, kind of critiques some of these aspects of his Western reception. www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396722/directed-by-yasujiro-ozu

    • @amafirenze-vi1uh
      @amafirenze-vi1uh 16 днів тому

      @@filmandmediastudieschannel thanks for the very detailed answer. I do think Ozu's movies represent the real essence of Japanese way of life more than Kurosawas dynamic movies or Kenji Mitsoguchi stylish period dramas.

  • @MiaoHaoFilm
    @MiaoHaoFilm 22 дні тому

    This is really inspiring! Thanks for sharing :)

  • @El_papa_de_Rambo
    @El_papa_de_Rambo 25 днів тому

    Why a photo of a thing is different than a painting of the thing? It doesn't make sense.

  • @anitarook3318
    @anitarook3318 28 днів тому

    Hello friend, i'd like to ask where are Althusser quotes from? specifically the ones at 10:53 and 11:10

  • @bashattack2414
    @bashattack2414 28 днів тому

    I am working on my final assignment (we're calling it a home exam but it's the same thing) as we speak, you've been such a massive help ever since I've discovered your channel this semester. <3 Also it caught me so off guard hearing someone talk about a Hebrew film - hearing Hebrew in the middle of an English lecture made me double take for a second - and then giggle at how polite the English translation of how rudely Ori describes the 80% of the test subjects in that experiment HAHA (he calls the other 20% the normal/more sane ones, and the subtitles just gloss over that) - it's very interesting how Israelis can be so casually rude in their speech but it is often translated so nicely in the subtitles, and for no reason too, making it quite charming in my opinion :)

    • @filmandmediastudieschannel
      @filmandmediastudieschannel 24 дні тому

      that's really interesting! thanks for letting me know about the translation in the subtitles. I always assume subtleties are missing in the subs so it's nice to hear what's really being communicated.

  • @simran19951000
    @simran19951000 Місяць тому

    I really needed this video! Thank you so much for explaining this so simply!

  • @user-dg8qh4zg2w
    @user-dg8qh4zg2w Місяць тому

    More cavell please !,!

  • @djpokeeffe8019
    @djpokeeffe8019 Місяць тому

    Where are the women?

    • @filmandmediastudieschannel
      @filmandmediastudieschannel Місяць тому

      Oh who were you thinking? I think Lynne Ramsey would be a really interesting example.

  • @firecrotch9190
    @firecrotch9190 Місяць тому

    Photogénie is what separates film from theater

  • @fluffymcdeath
    @fluffymcdeath Місяць тому

    Theory doesn't seem to mean much in philosophy beyond "I think ...". How exactly did Judith propose we test this "theory"?

  • @fluffymcdeath
    @fluffymcdeath Місяць тому

    Classic example of intellectuals thinking themselves into a hole where scientists ( and just about everyone else ) had figured out centuries before.

    • @bananenbrot958
      @bananenbrot958 19 днів тому

      Scientists are intellectuals??? And mostly prescribe to Judith Butler

  • @inbfu1513
    @inbfu1513 Місяць тому

    Pleaseee make a video more particularly about Affect theory also, Like Massumi and Sara Ahmed on image ... thanks!

  • @MEKON17
    @MEKON17 Місяць тому

    How does this apply to Taylor Swift

  • @pritampatowary5812
    @pritampatowary5812 Місяць тому

    Please create more content 🤍 We need YOU

  • @poloshirtsamurai
    @poloshirtsamurai Місяць тому

    Who cares. Feminists hate the "male gaze" but women look at themselves and get turned on too.

  • @nadirhatali8113
    @nadirhatali8113 Місяць тому

    6:41 isnt it first level=camera and second level=character in the text? Without identifing firstly with camera/image/screen, spectator can not identify with a character.

    • @filmandmediastudieschannel
      @filmandmediastudieschannel Місяць тому

      Yes I kind of think you're right. I remember coming back to the passage and thinking I had gotten it mixed up. But when I did return to the passage, I remember finding the wording confusing. After all, it's really Christian Metz's use of first level and second level identification in film that is referenced much more, and for Metz it is very clear that fist level = the camera/image and second level = character. If you're reading the Baudry and see a clear articulation of this, please do paste in a comment!

    • @filmandmediastudieschannel
      @filmandmediastudieschannel Місяць тому

      ah ok i see now that i had reproduced the passage in the video. the phrase "the character portrayed as a center of secondary identifications" makes it sound like Metz's primary and secondary ID. the sentence that makes me confused is what follows: the second level permits the appearance of the first..." Can you tell what is meant by "'first' and 'second' level, and which is the referent of 'that is the transcendental subject..."?

    • @nadirhatali8113
      @nadirhatali8113 Місяць тому

      @@filmandmediastudieschannel i read this article 20 years ago and maybe because of reading Metz at the same time or maybe my teacher misleaded or inhibited me.

    • @nadirhatali8113
      @nadirhatali8113 Місяць тому

      @@filmandmediastudieschannel now I read the previous and next paragraphs with footnotes... Very very ambigious or "intellectual" French way of writing... Anyway, i think there is nothing about identification with characters. Level 1 is about seeing images, that are shot for an "imaginary" spectator/transcendental subject Level 2. Keyword here is"repetition", the last word in the previous paragraph. Spectator sees images in projector that are shot with camera/looker for Transpectator so what spectator sees is his own Look. in fact it looks like, elementary school maths, basic Transitivity but they write as if they are writing a puzzle, not to be understood. Maybe it is better to read original French. But how much can it be meaningful to theorize with Neo-Marxist, Husserlian and Lacanian in the same article.

  • @lazyacademic
    @lazyacademic Місяць тому

    thank you!

  • @user-ib5jg1jr4x
    @user-ib5jg1jr4x Місяць тому

    Thank you SO much!

  • @Satao254
    @Satao254 Місяць тому

    😮😮😮😮let me rewatch all these movies

  • @tired_again
    @tired_again Місяць тому

    Perfect

  • @seun-ohm
    @seun-ohm Місяць тому

    Awesome!

  • @TeresaDatzer
    @TeresaDatzer Місяць тому

    What an incredible video!! Thank you so much!

  • @Iguana_slayer
    @Iguana_slayer Місяць тому

    Anybody know where that Maurice Merleau Ponty quote came from? I have been trying to cite it for my essay due Monday and have been looking for the source for two hours.

  • @777Rowen
    @777Rowen Місяць тому

    The boy and brain can’t be seperate it’s Al interconnected regardless of a person’s sex! No! Sex isn’t a spectrum, and yes I’m including intersex people because they’re intersex male and female. This sounds like passion-science!

  • @777Rowen
    @777Rowen Місяць тому

    This is ridiculous! This is not direct towards you, it’s towards her discussion/ideas. They’re muddling everything. Sex is real, gender is part of sex, based on sex, our our gendered roles and due to these expectations, people, men & women are expected to live up to those roles. However, not everyone expresses themselves into these harmful stereotypical categories of boys and girls; meaning the person is usually homosexual or enjoys cross dressing. There sex is still there, and I can’t support queer theory.

  • @lordtains
    @lordtains Місяць тому

    Wasn't sex already frowned upon in Christian doctrines? The suppression of lust and sexuality is already mentioned by ancient Greek philosophers (i.e. apathea).

  • @freya1681
    @freya1681 Місяць тому

    thank you so much for making this video! i'm learning about this in my course and i was so happy to find this as i didn't really understand. keep it up!

  • @cgpcgp3239
    @cgpcgp3239 Місяць тому

    What is a woman? An adult human female. Roles of women. Roles of women. It’s the societal roles of women that women rebelled against. Butler intentionally conflates roles of women with what is a woman.

  • @caciocavallo420
    @caciocavallo420 Місяць тому

    nice analysis man, I really loved the movie and really loved what you said about it!!

  • @Omicronthewiperofyouknow...
    @Omicronthewiperofyouknow... Місяць тому

    Read somewhere that one can't have the concept of heterosexuality without the concept of homosexuality. That is a strange thing, mainly because one can have the concept of gravity without the concept of anti-gravity. And many concept don't have an opposite, because those concept don't necessarily refer to a quality of something. The concept of sky doesn't represent a quality. In the same way, heterosexuality is not necessarily a quality.

  • @user-zp1kt9ur7g
    @user-zp1kt9ur7g Місяць тому

    Barthes' life span 1915-1980 in 02:11

  • @charlesbrown1365
    @charlesbrown1365 Місяць тому

    But female is a necessary condition of women gender . Also, humans have heterosexual instinct .