Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation (Theories of Representation and Difference)
(Part of the Theories of Representation and Difference Series)
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Book Overview
"Juxtaposing the narrative strategies of Freud, Wilde and Jarman; film pornography and Almodovar; and Dennis Cooper, Robert Gl ck and Kevin Killian, Jackson offers a delightfully intelligent and inventive reappraisal of key issues in gay representation." --Gay Times "A major event in gay cultural theory.... the feat of critical imagination is absolutely stunning in its scope and power. This book] will be definitive in laying out the issues for subsequent writers in gay theory." --David M. Halperin Earl Jackson examines visual and narrative texts from a variety of genres, including case histories, pornography, science fiction, and experimental prose.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0253209501
ISBN13:9780253209504
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Rating a difficult book such as this 5 stars obviously implies that I am comparing the book to its peers: works of scholarship in gay and lesbian studies that seek to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and to say something synthetic and theoretical about the very possibility of "representing" gay men (in this case) and lesbians.Jackson knows contemporary gay fiction and the critical language about narrative, he knows gay cinema and the critical language about cinema, and he knows psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory like the back of his hand. His book is a tour de force that relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory in useful, clever, and illuminating ways.
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