Tag: Dead Poets Society

  • Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story

    Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story

    Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.

  • “Dead Poets Society”: Why Neil’s Father Stood Before The Law

    “Dead Poets Society”: Why Neil’s Father Stood Before The Law

    When you think of this brilliant Peter Weir drama, you might remember the famous ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, the ingenious portrayal of John Keating by the late Robin Williams. If you’re Indian you might be unlucky enough to remember the horrible remake of this classic (Mohabbatein), or you might remember ‘Carpe Diem’. What I remember…