Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of DesireDuke University Press, 2003 M11 5 - 235 páginas With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or why such a cross-dressing Hollywood fantasy edges into collective consciousness as a lesbian narrative. Investigating what allows viewers to perceive an image or narrative as "lesbian," Villarejo presents a theoretical exploration of lesbian visibility. Focusing on images of lesbians in film, she analyzes what these representations contain and their limits. She combines Marxist theories of value with poststructuralist insights to argue that lesbian visibility operates simultaneously as an achievement and a ruse, a possibility for building a new visual politics and away of rendering static and contained what lesbian might mean. Integrating cinema studies, queer and feminist theory, and cultural studies, Villarejo illuminates the contexts within which the lesbian is rendered visible. Toward that end, she analyzes key portrayals of lesbians in public culture, particularly in documentary film. She considers a range of films—from documentaries about Cuba and lesbian pulp fiction to Exile Shanghai and The Brandon Teena Story—and, in doing so, brings to light a nuanced economy of value and desire. |
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... specific practices of cinema . To pay attention to commodity culture is certainly not to accept its terms uncritically , but when even Martha Stewart knows that " space is a com- modity ” ( as she told me in a recent e - mail from ...
... specific practices of cinema . To pay attention to commodity culture is certainly not to accept its terms uncritically , but when even Martha Stewart knows that " space is a com- modity ” ( as she told me in a recent e - mail from ...
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... specific form of lesbian interpellation , a way of addressing both implicitly and explicitly those who don't appear in the visual field of the cultural imaginary . " While Phelan's angle of inquiry into cinema through psychoanalysis ...
... specific form of lesbian interpellation , a way of addressing both implicitly and explicitly those who don't appear in the visual field of the cultural imaginary . " While Phelan's angle of inquiry into cinema through psychoanalysis ...
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... specific form of commodity - production that is the commercial cinema , and scholars who do take on the challenges of contextual analysis are slowly chipping away at the limits of textual and formal analysis , given the youth of the ...
... specific form of commodity - production that is the commercial cinema , and scholars who do take on the challenges of contextual analysis are slowly chipping away at the limits of textual and formal analysis , given the youth of the ...
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... specific affects such as shame , opposes itself to reason by designating a disposition or feeling that eludes reason's grasp . In this sense , affect becomes a useful way of designating that which is in excess of a rational delibera ...
... specific affects such as shame , opposes itself to reason by designating a disposition or feeling that eludes reason's grasp . In this sense , affect becomes a useful way of designating that which is in excess of a rational delibera ...
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... specific con- tent or shape - as in lesbian desire — it remains elusive , unpredictable , and capricious . As a result of its elusiveness , one cannot speak easily or accurately about lesbian desire , even as cinema depends on ...
... specific con- tent or shape - as in lesbian desire — it remains elusive , unpredictable , and capricious . As a result of its elusiveness , one cannot speak easily or accurately about lesbian desire , even as cinema depends on ...
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