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Goodbye Kitty
by Chas Ray Krider
Sometimes it takes others to explain us to ourselves — specifically, sometimes it takes Japan to highlight what's best about American pop culture and to feed it back in glossy, lusciously over-packaged form. Chas Ray Krider's series for our film issue suggests an American noir flick translated to Japanese and then back into English. This cultural repackaging shows us the erotic smolder of a specific kind of all-American girl, the kind who wears black eyeliner and red lipstick, who likes rockabilly and roller derby, cigarettes and swimming pools, highballs and classic black pumps; the kind who somehow always finds herself in a palm-tree-canopied motel parking lot with a .38 revolver in her perfectly manicured hand.
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