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In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives / Jack Halberstam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halberstam, Jack, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Sexual cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teena, Brandon, 1972-1993.
- Teena, Brandon.
- Transsexuals in motion pictures.
- Transsexuals in literature.
- Transsexualism.
- Gender identity.
- Marginality, Social.
- Sex role.
- Transgender people in literature.
- Transgender people in motion pictures.
- Gender nonconformity.
- Transness.
- Trans people in literature.
- Trans people in motion pictures.
- Transsexual people.
- LGBTQ+ films.
- Queer studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms, especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. 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.
- Contents:
- Queer temporality and postmodern geographies
- The Brandon archive
- Unlosing Brandon : Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton and transgender biography
- The transgender gaze
- Technotopias : visual culture and ambiguous embodiment
- Oh behave! Austin Powers and the Drag Kings
- What's that smell? Queer temporalities and subcultural lives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version : Halberstam, J. Jack. In a Queer Time and Place : Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.
- ISBN:
- 9780814737491
- 0814737498
- 9780814790892
- 0814790895
- OCLC:
- 794701091
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