Channel: Pop Culture Detective

Category: Education

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Description: Stalking For Love is a popular media trope where invasive stalker-like behavior is presented as an endearing or harmless part of romantic courtship. The hero will often go to extraordinary lengths to coerce, trick or otherwise manipulate his way into a woman's life. PATREON If you’d like to see more long-form video essays focusing on the intersections of entertainment and masculinity, please help fund this series on Patreon: patreon.com/popdetective PAYPAL If you'd rather make a one-time donation you can do that via PayPal: paypal.me/popdetective LIST OF STALKING FOR LOVE MOVIES: letterboxd.com/popdetective/list/stalking-for-love LINKS AND RESOURCES: • Are Hollywood movies teaching men and boys that predatory behavior is OK? latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-mcintosh-hollywood-predator-heroes-20180301-story.html • Stalking, actually: Men who reject rejection are not romantic heroes theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/stalking-men-rejection-romantic-sitcoms-films-creepy-women-boundaries • How Bollywood Plays a Role in Normalising Stalking thewire.in/162417/bollywood-stalking • Study finds romcoms teach filmgoers to tolerate 'stalking myths' theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/03/rom-coms-women-stalker-myth-study • Study: I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093650215570653 • How Rom-Coms Undermine Women theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/its-rom-coms-fault-too/505928 RECOMMENDED BOOKS • All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks amazon.com/All-About-Love-New-Visions/dp/0060959479 • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks amazon.com/Will-Change-Men-Masculinity-Love/dp/0743456084 FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT: popculturedetective.agency/2018/stalking-for-love-at-the-movies#more-6731 COMMENTS YouTube comments are held for approval due to harassment of this channel. If you would like to participate in constructive online conversations about this video, please share it on your social media networks. When videos get popular it's not always possible to short through every comment but I do the best I can. FAIR USE All multimedia clips included in this video constitute a 'fair use' of any copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright law, which allows for criticism, comment and scholarship. Learn more about fair use with this awesome app by New Media Rights! newmediarights.org/fairuse CREDITS Writer/Producer: Jonathan McIntosh Motion Graphics: Jonathan McIntosh Logo Design: Justin McIntosh Outro music: Jonathan Mann patreon.com/jonathanmann Help us caption & translate this video! amara.org/v/fFaa