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GEND101: Queering Film – The Labyrinth

Mar 9, 2016By Hannah McCann

Men in tights and Cinderella in jeans: The Labyrinth as feminist masterpiece “To be worshipped is not freedom” (Firestone 1970) Jareth: I ask for so little. Just fear me. Love me. Do as I ask, and I shall be yourRead more…

Mar 9, 2016Hannah McCann 0 Comments

GEND101: Queering Film – The Muppet Christmas Carol: A Camp Bonanza of Frivolity

Dec 17, 2015By Hannah McCann

‘Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style—but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the ‘off’’, of things being what-they-are-not.’ (Sontag 1964, s.8) Gonzo: My name is Charles Dickens. Rizzo theRead more…

Dec 17, 2015Hannah McCann 1 comment

GEND101: Queering Film – Freaky Friday, or, Becoming What You Cannot Love

Nov 9, 2015By Hannah McCann

  “In the experience of losing another human being whom one has loved, Freud argues, the ego is said to incorporate that other into the very structure of the ego, taking on attributes of the other and ‘sustaining’ the otherRead more…

Nov 9, 2015Hannah McCann 2 comments

GEND101: Queering Film – Wet Hot American Summer, Queering the Teen Movie

Oct 19, 2015By Hannah McCann

‘For the cult of the child permits no shrines to the queerness of boys or girls, since queerness, for the culture at large…is understood as bringing children and childhood to an end,’ (Edelman 1998, 25). Gary: ‘McKinley needs to experienceRead more…

Oct 19, 2015Hannah McCann 0 Comments

GEND101: Queering Film – He’s Just Not That Into You and the Difficulty of Heterosexuality

Aug 31, 2015By Hannah McCann

“I think one of the reasons that heterosexuality has to re-elaborate itself, to ritually reproduce itself all over the place, is that it has to overcome some constitutive sense of its own tenuousness.” (Butler 1996, 114) Gigi: ‘It’s hard toRead more…

Aug 31, 2015Hannah McCann 1 comment
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