Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. I hear and I forget. I […]
Category: Sexuality and Gender
Occasional musings, mostly about film.
‘Romance’ ~ an observation
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. John Phillips recognizes the traditional interpretation […]
Displaced, Fragmented, Relativised, Undermined ~ Then is it Still Pornography?
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. Lisa Dowling argues that ‘pornography displaced, […]
Voyeurism ~ Is It Consumer-Directed Foreplay?
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. A standard view of voyeurism assumes […]
The Generic Characteristics of the Stag Film
Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. The generic characteristics of the stag […]
‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’
What follows is Brock Thompson’s excellent summary of Eve Sedgwick’s article ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’ and he wrote it because the APA was again revisiting its assessment of gender and Ray Blanchard had become the new Dr Evil. I republished this in 2009 and re-read it today […]
Akróstichis #1 ~ The Enchantment
For she who is embedded in the text … Smiling Even (at least sometimes) in the wrong places Magic ~ I doubt you own up to that ~ Played out in All your silent tongues In all the dialects we both may anguish over Forgotten by morning Indiscrete nights/discourse denied Objuration unspoken/agreed? Not, it would […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
From Stag to Hard-Core ~ How The Genre Evolved
Observations ~ Probably the most significant developments in the evolution from stag to hard-core film relate to the move to full-length, feature complete with colour, sound and cohesive narrative along with the shift to an ending that enabled the audience to ‘withdraw satisfied’. The hard-core form became more sophisticated as the technological and philosophical move […]
Conventions for Representing Sex in ‘Last Tango in Paris’ and ‘Deep Throat’
Observations ~ ‘Last Tango in Paris’ represents sex in a conventional mainstream 1972 European art house style but ‘pushes the envelope’ of the genre by introducing edgy, dark content such as the digital anal penetration of Paul, the butter-assisted sodomising of Jeanne and the final public ‘handjob’. The gaze appears to be neutral or male […]
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