"The Last Of The Great Bohemians": Film Poetry, Myth, And Sexuality In Greenwich Village And The Atlantic, 1930-1975
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TL;DR: The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group as discussed by the authors was the first group of film-makers to endorse the notion of "free film poetry, free from time and place, this other group of filmmakers were interested in exploring their world in a more prosaic and realistic manner, right here and now".
Abstract: ed film poetry, free from time and place, this other group of film-makers were interested in exploring their world in a more prosaic and realistic manner, right here and now.” This notion, which Mekas had promoted for several years, was now endorsed by a growing number of 16 “The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group,” in Sitney, Film Culture Reader, 80. 17 “The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group,” in Sitney, Film Culture Reader, 83. 18 From Jonas Mekas, “Notes on the New American Cinema,” Film Culture 24 (Spring, 1962), in Sitney, Film Culture Reader, 89.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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TL;DR: In case you might be looking to understand how to get Before Homosexuality in the Arab Islamic World 150 as discussed by the authors, we refer the reader to the previous section of this article.
Abstract: In case you might be looking to understand how to get Before Homosexuality in the Arab Islamic World 150
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TL;DR: In this landmark work of U.S. queer history, Nan Alamilla Boyd aims to explain how San Francisco became a "wide-open town,” a city not only home to "disproportionately large gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
Abstract: In this landmark work of U.S. queer history, Nan Alamilla Boyd aims to explain how San Francisco became a “wide-open town,” a city not only home to “disproportionately large gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
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TL;DR: Working-class New York: Life and Labor since World War II as mentioned in this paper, a history of working-class life and labor in New York City since the early 1970s.
Abstract: (2000). Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 149-149.
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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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01 Jan 1990TL;DR: Sedgwick as mentioned in this paper argued that "o armario", ou o "segredo aberto", marcou a vida gay/lesbica no ultimo seculo e nao deixou de faze-lo mesmo apos o marco de Stonewall em 1969.
Abstract: Nesta versao condensada de seu livro homonimo, Sedgwick esboca uma reflexao sobre o "armario" como um dispositivo de regulacao da vida de gays e lesbicas que concerne, tambem, aos heterossexuais e seus privilegios de visibilidade e hegemonia de valores. A pesquisadora norte-americana afirma que "o armario", ou o "segredo aberto", marcou a vida gay/lesbica no ultimo seculo e nao deixou de faze-lo mesmo apos o marco de Stonewall em 1969. Sedgwick argumenta ainda que esse regime, com suas regras contraditorias e limitantes sobre privacidade e revelacoes, publico e privado, conhecimento e ignorância, serviu para dar forma ao modo como muitas questoes de valores e epistemologia foram concebidas e abordadas na moderna sociedade ocidental como um todo.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: Lee Edelman as discussed by the authors argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive.
Abstract: In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future , Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance , and, ultimately, the death drive itself.
Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest , who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds , with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: The authors examines the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, pointing to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.
Abstract: There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jos Esteban Mu oz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture--not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Mu oz calls this process "disidentification," and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Mu oz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.Mu oz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color--in Carmelita Tropicana's "Camp/Choteo" style politics, Marga Gomez's performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis's "Terrorist Drag," Isaac Julien's critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat's disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's performances of "disidentity," and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.
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