Queer Art of Failure

Informationen zum Autor Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films. Zusammenfassung Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Low Theory 1 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27 2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53 3. The Queer Art of Failure 87 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123 5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147 6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173 Notes 189 Bibliography 193 Index 201

Product details

• Authors: Judith Halberstam, Halberstam, Jack Halberstam
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.09.2011
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780822350453
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5045-3
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions (packing): 14.8 x 23.5 x 1.6 cm
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Erkenntnistheorie, Soziologie, Bezug zu Schwulen, Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik, Fernsehen, TV, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Populärkultur, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Philosophie / Erkenntnis, Trivialkultur, Gender Studies / Homosexualität (LGBTQ), Homosexualität (LGBTQ), Philosophie: Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Kunst: allgemeine Themen, LGBTQIA+ Studien / Themen