Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-Orientation in Film and Video
Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers. Straayer investigation ranges from Stella Dallas to Mrs. Doubtfire, "experimental" lesbian and gay films from the classic Maedchen in Uniform to the contemporary Go Fish, and music video icons such as David Bowie, Dead or Alive, and Divine to investigate transgressions of traditional gender...
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Straayer looks at commercial film and video from a new angle, and compels readers to consider the wealth of films made by and for non-traditional viewers. She surveys Hollywood productions ranging from the 1935 Stella Dallas to 1994's Mrs. Doubtfire. Choice In the course of this fascinating, polemical book . . . [Straayer] writes interestingly about such films as Some Like It Hot, Victor / Victoria, Adoption, and Orlando and about a number of experimental films. . . . Informative, challenging, thought-provoking, and perhaps unsettling.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film92Coming Out in a New World: Monika Trent's Virgin Machine233Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film424The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video795Queer Theory, Feminist Theory: Grounds for Rhetorical Figures102Pt. 1Baby Butch Meets Mother Beloved105Pt. 2The Man Behind the Mask1406The Public Private: Negotiating Subjectivity1607Discourse Intercourse: A Compendium of Sexual Scripts1848The Seduction of Boundaries: Feminist Fluidity in Annie Sprinkle's Art/Life233Postscript: A Graphic Interrogatory - Beyond Dimorphic Sex253Notes289Film/Videography317Bibliography323Index343
\ ChoiceIn the course of this fascinating, polemical book... [Straayer] writes interestingly about such films as Some Like It Hot, Victor / Victoria, Adoption, and Orlando and about a number of experimental films.... Informative, challenging, thought-provoking, and perhaps unsettling.\ \ \ \ \ \ ChoiceIn the course of this fascinating, polemical book . . . [Straayer] writes interestingly about such films as Some Like It Hot, Victor / Victoria, Adoption, and Orlando and about a number of experimental films. . . . Informative, challenging, thought-provoking, and perhaps unsettling.\ \ \ Library JournalStraayer (cinema studies, NYU) approaches feminist film theory from a queer (primarily lesbian) perspective, examining complex relationships between viewer and film while arguing for a rethinking of rigid sexual dichotomies. After studying mainstream, independent, and pornographic films, particularly those of Annie Sprinkle, Straayer posits multiple nonheterosexual, nonpatriarchal subjectivities for the way we view film, working toward a sexuality/gender continuum. Although the prose relies on deconstructionist terminology, determined readers will find Straayer's thesis compelling. A useful companion to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (LJ 2/1/89) and Bad Object-Choices' How Do I Look? (LJ 2/1/92), this belongs in all film, gender, and queer studies collections.Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ. Lib., Tex.\ \
