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SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor of English at the University of California¿Riverside and past editor of Theatre Journal. Among her publications are the pioneering book Feminism and Theater and the ground-breaking article "Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic."
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE DOMAIN-MATRIX: CRUISING SURFING THE MATRIX
I. Re-Charging Essentialism
A. Queer Performativity
B. Burying the Live Body
C. Performing Reading
D. The End of Print Culture
II. Toward a Politics of Space
A. Semio-Space
B. Cyberspace
C. Getting the Point
D. Voudou
E. Lesbian, Siamesian Space Cadets
III. First Contact: Murderous Heavenly Creatures
A. Matricide Engenders Nation
B. Rope-ing in the Virtual
C. Swoon-ing into Cyberspace
D. The Prison of Print's Return
IV. The Computer Cometh
A. A Revision of the Gaze
B. Out of Focus
C. Blanking Out
D. Playing the Cyberstreet: Hamlet Reversed
E. Turbo-Lesbo
F. The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex
G. Driving My Mouse
H. Tripping into Cyber-Revolution
V. Body as Flesh Zone
A. The Body Acts
B. The Transsexual Body
C. Screenic Interrupt
D. The Romance of the Knife
E. Performing the Cut: Orlan and Kate Bornstein
F. Screen/Skin/Utopia: The Lesbian Society
CASE STUDIES: PERFORMANCE AND THE SCREEN
BRINGING HOME THE MEAT: MATERIALIST SPATIAL DESIGNS OF NATION AND STAGE
LOS ANGELES: A TOPOGRAPHY OF SCREENIC PROPERTIES
THE BOTTOM
SOURCES
INDEX
About the author
SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside and past editor of Theatre Journal. Among her publications are the pioneering book Feminism and Theater and the ground-breaking article "Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic."
Summary
Ranges through the field of contemporary culture, from performance and visual theory to computer networks and video games. This book describes the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture, and how this passage affects the reader or computer user.
