Rebecca Schneider’s analysis of primitivism in performance, “it can be argued that I am not writing about race at all” (or childhood or animality); I am “in fact writing about those categories as haunting—the historical legacies of bodily markings as
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Before and After Ghostcatching
Animation, Primitivism, and the Choreography of Vitality
Heather Warren-Crow
Jess Dorrance
film Toxic (2012) by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Image courtesy of the artists. In this performance of half-hearted rebellion, which in fact is a restaging of a filmed 1985 interview with gaymous French writer Jean Genet, the drag queen
Steen Ledet Christiansen
of mirror. As it turns out, Lily was never there and Nina stabbed herself. Nina decides to dance a perfect black swan performance, while dying in the process. Thus, Black Swan participates in the representations of gendered violence in general, as
Lieke Hettinga and Terrance Wooten
introduction, and a conclusion. A deeply interdisciplinary project, Chen's study traverses—with ease—through performance studies, film and media studies, philosophy, queer studies, and critical ethnic studies in order to position its stakes. Dancing and
Akkadia Ford
On 2 March 2014, as Jared Leto was awarded one of the screen industry’s highest accolades—an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role—he received a standing ovation from the audience. As Leto accepted the award for
Objet A(ffect) and Che(www) Vuoi
The Fleshy Horror of the Unknowable Other in Spring and Honeymoon
Dewey Musante
blood from her vagina when he puts his hand down her pants. After this jarring (failed) sexual encounter, he confronts Bea with her seeming “practice” of remembering herself through the notes and performance in the mirror, and at that moment, when she
Emma Celeste Bedor
amongst high school students (see Hasinoff 2013) . However, revenge pornography is markedly different from other forms of pornography on the web for multiple reasons. First, it does not include a performance of mediated exhibitionism, the “phenomenon
Los Roldán and the Inclusion of Travesti Narratives
Representations of Gender-Nonconforming Identities in Argentinian Telenovelas
Martín Ponti
by the celebration of Carnival that grants Laisa full participation within her community of neighbors and fellow family members. While her performance grants Laisa an opportunity to be visible, it is short-lived since the festivities of Carnival
Steven Eastwood
particular Dustin Hoffman’s performance, have become a popular shorthand for autism and savantism. However, such extraordinary abilities are rare in ASD. Instances of savant facility within autism are around 10 percent, only marginally higher than the general
Groped and Gutted
Hollywood's Hegemonic Reimagining of Counterculture
Samantha Eddy
overrides the actual reality of racist performances” (2010: 126), allowing for the racist misrepresentation of nonwhite identities to frequently populate Hollywood productions. This is not to say that such misrepresentation is statically racist or sexist