Susan Rhodes

The fixations are “negatives.” The worldviews I have described are all “positive.” Putting the two sets of terms side by side is mutually illuminating.

— A. G. E. Blake

One of my favorite films is Pleasantville, where two modern teens, David and Jennifer (wonderfully played by Toby McQuire and Reese Witherspoon) are magically transported back to a 1950s sitcom, where they reluctantly adopt the personas of “Bud” and “Mary Sue,” joining a cast of characters stuck in two-...

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