I have to admit that I never noticed John Cameron Mitchell's testicles in the final scene of Hedwig until now! To me they almost produce some sort of shadowy Brechtian verfremdungseffekt – Cameron Mitchell’s body mutinously appearing behind the prota ...
Great post, thanks Cynthia. You do a great job of outlining the ways in which compulsory able-bodiedness as a system is often left untroubled by the film. However, there are one or two glimpses of cripqueer possibility in the film and both involve Justin ...
The idea of making something ‘stand’ is present in Hedwig as well. She initially presents herself as the “internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you” – and we all know what type of limb Hedwig is missing. Interestingly, like McKelle ...
Cynthia, great points. The vignette with McKellen's leg brace reminded me very much of the scene where James Spader removes Rosanna Arquette's steel prosthesis to fuck her wound in David Cronenberg's Crash. And that intertextual moment seem ...
I can't stop thinking about Severin and I think it is significant that she has become the most significant, the most written about, the most talked about, figure of the theme week. I can't stop pondering her because she is so difficult to get, ...
Great questions Kris and Cynthia, thank you both. I guess you are right, Kris, that I would locate the biogrammatic possibilities in the permutations of the landscape and the (t)angled bodies in the orgy scene rather more so than in the bodies of the “ma ...
Madison, for some reason the still image for your clip keeps reminding me of David LaChapelle's image of the transgendered Amanda Lepore as Warhol's Marilyn which brings us back to some of the issues around art and pop raised in Kirsty's po ...
Should we really term Gaga's extreme experiments with hyper-femininity and object-ness an 'uglification', Michael? The female-to-female drag here does certainly give Gaga a transgender appearance (something I think the beginning of Telephon ...
Thank you Madison! This is a very interesting perspective on Lady Gaga's continual becoming-image. I want to continue down Dom's line of thought: is Gaga master of the event just because she is master of her image? And- more importantly- is � ...
I'm not sure I buy the idea that Gaga's image conforms to Maxim/FHM standards of female sexiness or pulchritude. Indeed, her make-up, outfits, hair are all monstrous deformations, for the most part, of normative idea(l)s of female beauty (the dr ...
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Brechtian Balls
Crip glimpses
Hedwig's Stance
Severin and Lady Grey
Severin's "Correspondence of Forms"
Biograms and the Multitude
Another in the long line of artists
Should we really term Gaga’s
Gaga's 'mastery'
Gaga's Drag
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