Still, Greenwell contends that cruising "spaces can be spaces of exploration and empathy", ripe for artistic and emotional study.
"To see you all over the past week, working so hard... to see how it all came together, well, suffice it to say, you are more than a family to me," the scientist wrote in an emotional study in Nature.
"To see you all over the past week, working so hard … to see how it all came together, well, suffice it to say, you are more than a family to me," the scientist wrote in an emotional study in Nature.
"Blood Ties" is a largely engrossing drama set in 1974 that works better as an emotional study of brothers on flip sides of the law than as the Sidney Lumet-type crime saga it strives to be.
It's a complex, controversial, emotional subject, study of which has many far-reaching implications, many of which people don't like hearing and actively resist.
Even as the events of the story spiral out of control, with teen-age pregnancies, unexpected encounters, funerals, and murders, the characters remain rich emotional studies, whose interior lives Michaud (who works at this magazine) explores with finesse and sympathy.
"When Tito Loved Clara," by Jon Michaud (Algonquin Books; $23.95) Even as the events of the story spiral out of control, with teen-age pregnancies, unexpected encounters, funerals, and murders, the characters remain rich emotional studies, whose interior lives Michaud explores with finesse and sympathy.
His tastes are eclectic, his skill-set vast: he can move confidently between witty romps (such as his 1996 breakthrough, Irma Vep, one of the cleverest of all films about film-making, or the techno-thriller Demonlover) and lavish, patient period pieces (Les Destinées Sentimentales) or slow-burn emotional studies (Summer Hours).
The fallout of that "emotional contagion study" haunts Facebook's reputation among ethicists and researchers.
But the latest row over the emotional manipulation study that's so engaged – and enraged – much of the internet has only amplified my misgivings.
And last year, in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain, a criminally underrated satire of capitalism, he delivered a complex, emotional character study that also saw him grill a man's hands on an outdoor barbecue.
