Priscilla, (white) Queen of the Desert

Priscilla, (white) Queen of the Desert
Title Priscilla, (white) Queen of the Desert PDF eBook
Author Damien W. Riggs
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 152
Release 2006
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780820486574

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Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history, this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike. Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer race privilege.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Australian Films

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Australian Films
Title Focus On: 100 Most Popular Australian Films PDF eBook
Author Wikipedia contributors
Publisher e-artnow sro
Pages 851
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Focus On: 50 Most Popular Buddy Films

Focus On: 50 Most Popular Buddy Films
Title Focus On: 50 Most Popular Buddy Films PDF eBook
Author Wikipedia contributors
Publisher e-artnow sro
Pages 317
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Imagined Landscapes

Imagined Landscapes
Title Imagined Landscapes PDF eBook
Author Jane Stadler
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 239
Release 2015-12-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0253018498

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An analysis of the depiction of Australia’s landscape in its films and literature. Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates. “It will likely be the indispensable touchstone for any future work in these areas with respect to Australian cultural studies.” —Robert T. Tally, Texas State University “Definitely original in its approach, since it combines a conceptual approach with a more applied one. The book is a serious contribution to the field of mapping spatial narratives and to a better understanding of the production and spatial structure of fictional places.” —Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University

Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema
Title Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema PDF eBook
Author Niall Richardson
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 211
Release 2022-08-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000618773

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This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters. Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies – and engaging with the concerns voiced by gender critical feminism – this culturally oriented book critiques the representation of trans characters in a range of cinematic genres, including the musical, period costume drama, the road movie, melodrama, coming-of-age stories, and romances. The case studies address the ways in which trans identifications have been coded within the narrative and stylistic expectations of the genres. Are genre films successful in affirming trans identifications or do they reinforce trans stereotypes and anti-trans discourses? This is a timely and accessible book, which addresses Anglophonic, European and Latin American cinemas, and is ideal for students studying courses in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies or Gender Studies.

Good White Queers?

Good White Queers?
Title Good White Queers? PDF eBook
Author Kai Linke
Publisher transcript Verlag
Pages 333
Release 2021-03-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3839449170

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How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.

Governance and Multiculturalism

Governance and Multiculturalism
Title Governance and Multiculturalism PDF eBook
Author Catherine Koerner
Publisher Springer
Pages 289
Release 2019-08-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3030237400

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A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness. Informed by insights from white Australians in rural contexts, Koerner and Pillay attempt to answer how race shapes those who identify as white Australian; how those who self-identify thusly relate to the nation, multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignties; and how white Australians understand and experience their own racialized position and its privilege. This “insider perspective” on the continuing construction of whiteness in Australia is analyzed and challenged through Indigenous Sovereign theoretical standpoints and voices. Ultimately, this investigation of the social construction of race not only extends conceptualizations of multiculturalism, but also informs governance policy in the light of changing national identity.