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Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part 1 On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott Aug 2007

Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part 1 On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

Guest Blogger with Bob Rehak


Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part Ii On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins,, Suzanne Scott Aug 2007

Gender And Fan Culture Series: Round 15 Part Ii On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins,, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

Guest Blogger with Bob Rehak


Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wunderkind, Leo Lensing Apr 2007

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wunderkind, Leo Lensing

Leo A Lensing

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At Home In The Museum: Pierre Loti, Self-Collected, Self-Possessed, Anthony Purdy Jan 2007

At Home In The Museum: Pierre Loti, Self-Collected, Self-Possessed, Anthony Purdy

Anthony Purdy

Suspended between metaphor and metonymy, between the spatial logic of the collection and the scenario of the personal that was the life of its owner, Pierre Loti's house in Rochefort participates in the same transvestism as his novels. This article explores the house museum as a heterotopia in which the synchronous time of the collection is open to disruption by the souvenir's reference to past events, to the biography of the collector.


Queer Transitions In Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco To La Movida, Gema Pérez-Sánchez Dec 2006

Queer Transitions In Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco To La Movida, Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing “homosexual” model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized “queer” body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. Pérez-Sánchez shows that urban queer culture played a defining role in the cultural and political processes that helped to move …