Flamboyant Fictions

The Failed Art of Passing

Ian Fleishman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4804-8 (ISBN)

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Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film. This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day.

Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition of flamingly failed passing that is itself a surreptitious mode of passing: the flaunting of queer style as an intentionally unconvincing cover for queer content. Exploring a corpus of films and novels by AndrÉ Gide, Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, FranÇois Ozon, and Xavier Dolan, among others, Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing intervenes in trenchant debates about queer agency, visibility, negativity, and disidentification. Mapping queer strategies of storytelling onto queer practices of self-invention, Flamboyant Fictions wagers that it is precisely in instances of conflict between these auteurs and their inventions that narrative becomes a laboratory for testing the sovereignty and self-determination of queer identity.

Ian Fleishman is the inaugural chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino (Northwestern University Press).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Agency as Failed Passing
Part 1: Counterfeit Identities
Chapter 1: Counterfeit Narratives: AndrÉ Gide’s Queer Coinages
Chapter 2: Counterfeit Sexualities: Performativity in Jean Genet
Part 2: Embodied Abstraction
Chapter 3: Camp/Abject: Queer Failure in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Chapter 4: The Wound in Bloom: Werner Schroeter’s Gay Stigmata
Part 3: Token Subversion
Chapter 5: New Camp Extremity: Adaptation and Experimentation in FranÇois Ozon
Chapter 6: Not Nothing: Xavier Dolan’s Vanishing Gay Aesthetic
Coda: Flamboyant Fictions
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	30 b-w halftones
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8101-4804-8 / 0810148048
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4804-8 / 9780810148048
Zustand	Neuware