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Mark me down as a fan of "Deadwood" as well...for all the reasons noted. The writing was exquisite and the cast superb. As with True Grit, it used an authentic vocabulary in a dialogue that was literary and played for effect. The vulgarity was likely some of the most authentic features of its language. For all of its innovativeness, I don't think the last century has added much at all to the vocabularity of profanity. I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of it was in place very early in the emergence of modern language. Linguists say that the terminology for body parts and bodily functions are among the first locked into place in the evolution of language. I don't know about Wild Bill, but "Deadwood" conveyed a lot of the sexual tensions and ambiguities in an overwhelmingly male only society. Nor did it have any problems portraying Calamity Jane's sexuality pretty clearly and quite sympathetically. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
