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The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films proliferate sites …


Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Michael Jackson: Queer Funk, Steven Bruhm Dec 2008

Michael Jackson: Queer Funk, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm Dec 2006

Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm Oct 2006

Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

The late twentieth century is fascinated by the phenomenon of the gothic child, the child who manifests evil, violence, and sexual aggression. On the face of it, this evil is “caused” by either medical or social factors: medicinal drugs, radiation, or the corrupting influences of political others. However, this essay argues that the gothic child actually arises from conflicting forces of child-philosophies, the intersection of Romantic childhood innocence with Freudian depth models. These models tacitly point to a child that “is” rather than “is made”, a child that belies contemporary parental attempts to make it be otherwise. Moreover, the idea …


Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm Dec 2005

Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Viewing In Discretion, Steven Bruhm Dec 2003

Viewing In Discretion, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Steven Bruhm Dec 2002

Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm Dec 1995

Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Queer, Queer Vladimir, Steven Bruhm Dec 1995

Queer, Queer Vladimir, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm Dec 1994

Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Roderick Random’S Closet, Steven Bruhm Dec 1992

Roderick Random’S Closet, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


William Godwin’S Fleetwood: The Epistemology Of The Tortured Body, Steven Bruhm Dec 1991

William Godwin’S Fleetwood: The Epistemology Of The Tortured Body, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Blackmailed By Sex: Tennessee Williams And The Economics Of Desire, Steven Bruhm Dec 1990

Blackmailed By Sex: Tennessee Williams And The Economics Of Desire, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.