Rather than a gentle poking at the silly side of masculinity, Perry's show is a serious study of emotional repression and its devastating consequences.
If "Collectors" pretends to be a serious study of a certain kind of fetishism and its implications for the human condition, the movie has no soul.
His first known romance, Erec et Enide (Erec and Enide), is a serious study of marital and social responsibilities and contains elements of Celtic enchantment.
By all indicators, then, this is a serious study by serious academics from two of the most prestigious law schools in the world - so why didn't it get more coverage?
Phil Baker in the Sunday Times held that "comedy and serious violence are a tricky combination for a writer … Too knockabout and buffoonish to be a serious study of violence to women in Pakistani culture, too ugly to be funny, this heavy-handed book might be well intended but it is a bloody mess".
Haidt's book is a serious study of divergent moral viewpoints in politics and religion, but he obviously gets a kick out of confronting his subjects with the ick factor: "If you are not a liberal or libertarian Westerner," he writes in his first chapter, "you probably think it's wrong — morally wrong — for someone to have sex with a chicken carcass and then eat it".
Bailey showed me an email from a stranger, a self-identified feminine gay man, who in a thoughtful email message in May 2003 said he "was put off by the title and cover, thinking it unlikely to be a serious study.
I think it is the failure to make this distinction that is at the heart of the difference between those who would describe themselves or be described as "fundamentalists," those who are more or less in the mainstream of Christianity and those who are making a serious study of Christianity.
This is why a serious study of how yoga and Āyurveda view the human system through subtle anatomies becomes critical for every yoga therapy practitioner.
I don't believe it is a serious scientific study.
