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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wallace, Lee (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Reattachment theory [Texte imprimé] : queer cinema of remarriage / Lee Wallace
Publication : Durham : Duke University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-247 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : A Camera obscura book
Lien à la collection : A camera obscura book
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"REATTACHMENT THEORY eschews dominant queer critiques of same-sex marriage to examine
the varied histories of queer influences on marriage. According to the traditional
queer critique, the legalization of same-sex marriage signaled a neoliberal and homonormative
assimilation into normative structures of heterosexism and reproductive futurism.
Countering this argument, queer film scholar Lee Wallace claims that, since the eighteenth
century, marriage has allowed for many queer and non-normative plotlines. In this
book, Wallace is more interested in marriage as a narrative-both in how marriage is
narrativized, as well as the story of the changing meaning of marriage-than she is
in marriage as a legal institution. Drawing on historians of marriage, Wallace traces
the iterations of love associated with marriage vows: from obligation or duty, to
romance, and finally to intimacy. Historicizing the discourse of intimacy, Wallace
claims that the valorization of intimacy across the twentieth century led to an idealization
of the couple form, regardless of heterosexual or homosexual affiliation. Furthermore,
Wallace draws on twentieth-century formulations of sexual reciprocity and sexual satisfaction
regardless of marital status-and their links to the discourses of intimacy-to reveal
how these concepts proved flexible enough to include homosexuality. Tracking these
changing narratives of marriage throughout the twentieth century, Wallace grounds
her analyses in an archive of popular culture films. Using Stanley Cavell's notion
that, following the "marriage crisis" created by divorce in the early twentieth century,
all marriage is remarriage, Wallace argues that after the advent of same-sex marriage,
all marriage is gay marriage. Chapter 1, which doubles as the introduction, lays out
the stakes of the project. Chapter 2 examines nineteenth-century literature and early
twentieth-century popular culture to reveal the changing story of marriage. Chapter
3 situates the 1936 film Craig's Wife as an anticipation of gay and lesbian alternatives
to marriage. Chapter 4 reads Tom Ford's film production of Christopher Isherwood's
A Single Man as a means to extend homosexual style as a "brand" of cultural and emotional
capital. Chapters 6 and 7 engage directly with Cavell's theory of remarriage as an
analytic to examine same-sex marriage. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of queer theory, feminist studies, and film studies"
Sujet(s) : Lesbianisme -- Au cinéma
Homosexuels -- Mariage
Homosexualité -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 53 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thème des caractéristiques et activités humaines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1478009136. - ISBN 9781478009139. - ISBN 9781478006817 (erroné). - ISBN 1478006811
(erroné). - ISBN 9781478008101 (erroné). - ISBN 1478008105 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46563257n
Notice n° :
FRBNF46563257
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Queer Skepticism and Gay Marriage ; 2.
From Gay Marriage to Remarriage ; 3. Dorothy Arzner's Wife ; 4. Tom Ford and His
Kind ; 5. Lisa Cholodenko's Attachment Trilogy ; 6. Reattachment Theory ; 7. The
Remarriage Crisis ; Reacknowledgments ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; A ; B
; C ; D ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; Q ; R ; S ;
T ; U ; V ; W ; Z
