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Misfitology : Misfit Narratives In Ideology, Kennedy Lyn Coyne
Misfitology : Misfit Narratives In Ideology, Kennedy Lyn Coyne
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This hybrid thesis, part critical and part fiction, examines experimental and nontraditional texts that showcase how misfits allow viewers and readers to glimpse ideological structures—particularly interpellation. It argues that the misfit is essential to the visibility of the ideological process because the misfit shows the disconnect between the inverted and the real world. The inverted world seems like the real world but it is masked by ideology. This thesis examines how a pair of films – David Lynch’s films Blue Velvet and Mullholland Drive – and a pair of novels – Eileen Myles’ Chelsea Girls, and Chris Kraus’ I Love …
(I), Julian Dante Mostachetti
(I), Julian Dante Mostachetti
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The following creative work is the beginnings of a novel, reduced to two chapters for this thesis. Chapter one traces the psychological, sexual, political, and artistic development of an alienated protagonist. His closeted bisexuality is at odds with heteronormativity, his awareness of encroaching fascism at odds with a progressive culture, his depression is at odds with material comfort, his perception at odds with an inability to express himself, and his social atomization contrasts with a desire to escape the horizon of his own sensations and understand others. The end of the first chapter shifts perspective to a young woman who …