What is it about these tropes and motifs — filmic representations of love and desire — that keeps you coming back?
"You look at your list and you think, 'Gosh, I'm so shallow!'" she laughs, "because it's 'good-looking, tall, handsome...'." In her memoir, Janmohamed focuses on the intersection between the cultural representations of love and the reality.
This guide from the Anti-Bullying AlliancEducationaltionActionion Challenging Homophobia explores the experiences of young people in their own words, and offers advice on how schools can help, such as avoiding victim-blaming, ensuring that class discussions do not offer heterosexuality as the only representation of love, and challenging phrases like "that's so gay".
As I read the piece, I realised (having once taught a course entitled From Romeo and Juliet to Sleepless in Seattle, about the representation of love) that most of the books I had once studied, and taught, would be off-limits to the protesters at Clemson.
To me, Jesus can represent many things, and in this sense, Jesus is a representation of love.
But her poetry marks a radical break with the erudite, ornate style and the mystical representation of love so typical of poets like Alexander Blok and Andrey Bely.
Smile and put your arms around your child, and tell your child that Santa is the representation of loving parents.
Idealised representations of romantic love invite surrender to its ruthlessly beguiling logic.
And yet, although the films are not romances, there are more realistic representations of romantic love threaded through the three movies than you'll find in a multiplex full of romantic comedies.
Sure, they may have questionable taste, but there's probably no better representation of unconditional love than your local canine.
I'll go with the latter, even if I think the video's representation of "destructive love" is a little on-the-nose.
