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…
GEND101: Queering Film – The Muppet Christmas Carol: A Camp Bonanza of Frivolity
‘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…
GEND101: Queering Film – Freaky Friday, or, Becoming What You Cannot Love
“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…
GEND101: Queering Film – Wet Hot American Summer, Queering the Teen Movie
‘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…
GEND101: Queering Film – He’s Just Not That Into You and the Difficulty of Heterosexuality
“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…