Informationen zum Autor Judith Halberstam is Professor of English! American Studies and Ethnicity! and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of "In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies! Subcultural Lives!" as well as" Female Masculinity" and "Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters!" both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films. Zusammenfassung Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction: Low Theory; 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation; 2. Dude! Where's My Phallus? Forgetting! Losing! Looping; 3. The Queer Art of Failure; 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity; 5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism; 6. Animating Failure: Ending! Fleeing! Surviving Notes; Bibliography; Index

Autorentext

Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.

Klappentext

Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films.

Zusammenfassung
Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

Inhalt

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Low Theory 1

1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27
2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53
3. The Queer Art of Failure 87
4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123
5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147
6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173
   Notes 189
   Bibliography 193
   Index 201