| Description |
viii, 213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Sexual cultures.
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Sexual cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Queer temporality and postmodern geographies -- The Brandon archive -- Unlosing Brandon : Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton and transgender biography -- The transgender look -- Technotopias : representing transgender bodies in contemporary art -- Oh behave! Austin Powers and the drag kings -- What's that smell? Queer temporalities and subcultural lives. |
| Summary |
In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Don't Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the "transgender gaze," as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities. Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations inart, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place. |
| Subject |
Teena, Brandon, 1972-1993.
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Teena, Brandon, 1972-1993. |
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Gender nonconformity.
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Gender nonconformity. |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity. |
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Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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Transgender people in motion pictures.
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Transgender people in motion pictures. |
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Transgender people in literature.
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Transgender people in literature. |
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Marginality, Social.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Gender identity. |
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Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
0814735843 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814735848 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814735851 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814735855 paperback alkaline paper |
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