tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57390191900850958992024-03-05T18:19:49.298-05:00Gender Variance in the ArtsZagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-71297155692277484742012-07-10T11:32:00.000-04:002012-07-10T11:32:07.543-04:00I stumbled onto the following at : <a href="http://trushare.com/88sep02/SE02KIRK.htm">http://trushare.com/88sep02/SE02KIRK.htm</a><br />
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... a character
mentioned at the end of the second letter to Timothy as one who resisted Paul’s
preaching – Alexander the Coppersmith – later converted to Christianity,
changed sex, and left Ephesus for a new life in Rome. There he altered his name
to Phoebe and ultimately became a leading deacon. The clue which led Baumsterk to this daring conclusion was, he
says, the realization of the true significance of the name ‘Phoebe’. ‘Literally,
in Greek it means <i>shining one</i>’, the Professor told a crowded press
conference, ‘an allusion to Alexander’s former profession.’ But it was
also a name for Diana, as goddess of the moon, and so carried a reference to
Alexander/Phoebe’s native city. Phoebe, moreover, was the daughter of Uranus
who, in mythology, was castrated by his son, Kronos, so alluding to the surgery
at the hands of the evangelist and doctor, Luke, who performed the operation at
Paul’s request on Alexander’s arrival in Rome.</div>
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Make of it what you will, but bare in mind it is written by <span style="font-family: Albertus Extra Bold; font-size: medium;">Rachel Gladraggs, </span>
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"Our Ballroom Dancing Correspondent".</div>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-23624797673402491832012-04-10T13:05:00.000-04:002020-04-08T10:10:47.684-04:00A partial list of trans women (and one man) playing trans in the movies up to 2011With much justification we complain that trans characters in the movies are usually played by cis actors. Two recent films that (fortunately) failed to be made, films about Lili Elba and James Barry were both intended to have a cis woman actor playing the trans characters even though Elbe was a woman, and Barry a man. <br />
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There are groups that have this worse than we do. Apart from Christopher Reeve after his accident, how many disabled characters are played by disabled actors?<br />
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This is a short list where trans actors of different types have played trans characters. I have not included professional gender impersonators here. A much longer list from Vesta Tilly to Julian Eltinge to RuPaul could be created, but that is not what this list is about. Nor, with one or two exceptions, does this list include documentaries, nor trans actors in cis roles.<br />
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It is no accident that is list is more World Cinema than Hollywood.<br />
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Kazuo Hasegaw in <i>Yukinojo Henge</i> (Actor’s Revenge), 1935 <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/06/edward-d-wood-jr-1924-1978-film-maker.html">Ed Wood</a> in <i>Glen or Glenda</i>, 1952. <br />
Kazuo Hasegaw in <i>Yukinojo Henge</i> (Actor’s Revenge), 1963. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2008/02/flawless-sabrina-rachel-harlow-and.html">Rachel Harlow, Crystal LaBeija, Sabrina</a> in <i>The Queen</i>, 1968. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/09/carlotta-1943-performer.html">Carlotta </a>in <i>The Naked Bunyip</i>, 1970. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/03/bibiana-manuela-fernandez-chica-1954.html">Bibiana Fernandez</a> in <i>Cambio de Sexo</i>, 1977. <br />
Jayne County in <i>Jubilee</i>, 1977. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/11/eva-robins-1958-performer.html">Eva Robin’s</a> in <i>El Transexual</i>, 1977 <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/06/angie-stardust-1940-2007-performer.html">Angie Stardust</a> in <i>Die Alptraumfrau</i>, 1981. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/06/angie-stardust-1940-2007-performer.html">Angie Stardust</a>, Jayne County,<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2011/06/tara-ohara-195-1983-performer.html"> Tara O’Hara</a> in <i>Stadt der Verlorenen Seelen</i>, 1983. <br />
Georgina Beyer in <i>Jewel’s Darl</i>, 1985. <br />
Shelley Mars in <i>Die Jungfrauen-maschine</i>, 1988 <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/11/eva-robins-1958-performer.html">Eva Robin’s</a>, <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/04/romy-haag-1951-actor-singer-nightclub.html">Romy Haag</a> in <i>Mascara</i>, 1989. <br />
Alessandra di Sanzo in <i>Mery per sempre</i>, 1989. <br />
Alexis Arquette in <i>Last Exit to Brooklyn</i>, 1989. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/08/international-chrysis-1951-1990.html">International Chrysis</a> in <i>Q & A</i>, 1990. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2008/08/doris-fish-1952-1991-australia-usa.html">Doris Fish</a> in <i>Vegas in Space</i>, 1991. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/06/adele-anderson-1952-singer.html">Adele Anderson</a> in <i>Company Business</i>, 1991. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/01/estelle-asmodelle-1964-dancer-activist.html">Estelle Asmodelle</a> in <i>Secret Fantasies</i>, 1992. <br />
Ichgola Androgyn, <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/03/tima-die-goettliche-1965-actor-singer.html">Tima die Goettliche</a>, Ovo Maltine in<i> Ich Bin Meine Eigene Frau</i>, 1992. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/11/eva-robins-1958-performer.html">Eva Robin’s</a> in <i>Bella al Bar</i>, 1995. <br />
Lady Chablis in <i>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</i>, 1997. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/03/tima-die-goettliche-1965-actor-singer.html">Tima die Goettliche</a> in <i>Der Einstein des Sex</i>, 1999 <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2012/02/antonia-san-juan-1961-actress-director.html">Antonia San Juan</a> in <i>Todo sobre mi madre</i>, 1999. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2008/07/fernanda-farias-de-albuquerque-1963.html">Ingrid de Souza</a> in <i>Princesa</i>, 2001. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/09/lauren-foster-1957-model-party-promoter.html">Lauren Foster</a> in <i>Circuit</i>, 2001. <br />
Kokkorn Benjathikoon in <i>Satree lek</i> (Iron ladies), 2001. <br />
Kokkorn Benjathikoon in <i>Satree lek 2</i> (Iron ladies 2), 2001. <br />
Florencia de la Vega in <i>Los Roldan</i>, 2004. <br />
Stephanie Michelini in <i>Wild Side</i>, 2004 <br />
Alexis Arquette in Lords of Dogtown, 2005.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2011/01/bobby-darling-198-actor.html">Bobby Darling</a> in <i>Navarasa</i>, 2005 <br />
Raquela Rios in <i>The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela</i>, 2008. <br />
Lee Na-young in <i>Lady Daddy</i>, 2010.<br />
Yasmin Lee in <i>The Hangover II</i>, 2011.<br />
Harmony Santana in <i>Gun Hill Road</i>, 2011.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-50763885986211947752011-12-02T05:18:00.000-05:002011-12-02T09:45:47.548-05:00All Good ThingsDirected by Andrew Jarecki<br />
Script by Marcus Hinchey & Marc Smerling. <br />
101 minutes 2010 <br />
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Ryan Gosling plays David Marks (= Robert Durst)<br />
Kirsten Dunst plays Katie Marks (= Kathie Durst)<br />
Frank Langella plays Sanford Marks (= Seymour Durst)<br />
<a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcwMjIyMTc2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQyMzc5Mw@@._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcwMjIyMTc2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQyMzc5Mw@@._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg" width="135" /></a>Philip Baker Hall plays Malvern Bump (= Morris Black)<br />
Lily Rabe plays Deborah Lehrman (= Susan Berman)</blockquote>
Country of finance: US <br />
Nationality of director: US <br />
Location of story: New York, Galveston, Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa.<br />
Filming location: Connecticut, New York City<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Plot</span></b><br />
See my Who’s Who entry for <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/12/robert-durst-1943-scion-of-wealth.html">Robert Durst</a>. The film adheres particularly closely to the facts, particularly by the standards of Hollywood. The major changes are the names of the characters, and a willingness to speculate just what happened to Kathie Durst and Susan Berman.<br />
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The film also adds a few lines of dialogue re why David Marks disguises as a woman. He tells the court that he wanted to get as far as possible away from being David Marks. Also Malvern Bump asks him if he actually likes girlie things, to which David says ‘no’.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Curiosities</span></b><br />
<i>All Good Things</i> was the name of the health food store that Robert and Kathie ran in Vermont..<br />
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The names of all the characters were changed.<br />
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The film was made in 2008, but than sat on the shelf, and was quietly released to DVD early in 2011 after a minimal theatrical release.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Reaction of the Durst family and organization</span></b><br />
Robert Durst visited the sets as the film was being made and watched from a distance. Apparently he likes the film, but doesn’t admit to any murders.<br />
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The Durst Organization considered suing, but “this movie will be seen by so few people that litigation would be superfluous”.<br />
<ul>
<li>Charles V. Bagli & Kevin. “That’s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn’t Do It”. <i>The New York Times,</i> Nov 24, 2010. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/movies/28durst.html">www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/movies/28durst.html.</a></li>
<li>"All Good Things (film)". <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things_%28film%29">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things_%28film%29</a>. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors, page 114<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Click <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/06/leslie-feinberg-1949-author-activist.html">here </a>for more on Leslie Feinberg. </div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-59044166722374511972011-05-22T14:07:00.003-04:002011-05-22T14:12:38.466-04:00Eaux D’ArtificeDirected by Kenneth Anger <br />
13 minutes 1953 <br />
<blockquote>Carmillo/a Salvatorelli as the Water Witch</blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVofCwPZThMrAN41aNjsBJ6nttRAUjo60iXrviObvlp64avAqmqPXcLpePU51TlaEnXtmp0iyw5Hk9ADXBzd2t4t1kkL4vUK_K7swby3STjOZRwGSuM5M3KQTX-LhKLYbA5qATFeBcVw/s1600/Eaux1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVofCwPZThMrAN41aNjsBJ6nttRAUjo60iXrviObvlp64avAqmqPXcLpePU51TlaEnXtmp0iyw5Hk9ADXBzd2t4t1kkL4vUK_K7swby3STjOZRwGSuM5M3KQTX-LhKLYbA5qATFeBcVw/s320/Eaux1.jpg" width="320" /></a>Country of finance: Italy/US <br />
Nationality of director: US <br />
Filming location: Garden of Villa D’Este, Tivoli<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Synopsis</span></b><br />
A person in eighteenth-century clothing and sun glasses runs around the fountains of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_d%27Este">Villa D’Este</a>, to a soundtrack by Antonio Vivaldi.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Trivia</span></b><br />
Kenneth Anger’s first film in 1947 was called <i>Fireworks</i>, which in French is <i>Feux D’Artifice</i>. This film is about water so: <i>Eaux D’Artifice</i>.<br />
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Anger in his early notes for the Cinema 16 catalogue described the film as “the evocation of a Firbank heroine” and her flight as “the pursuit of the night moth”. This refers to the end of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Firbank">Ronald Firbank</a>’s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmouth">Valmouth</a></i> where the heroine goes into a garden in pursuit of a butterfly, dressed in her wedding gown and carrying her bouquet.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0tyIjhUvidDevVj-AQTS3xyozEApLmytkmOFRO5WH62eIvQhK5doqaRbtCn5Gzt4gFqJncEvaHVyquk7hJ5fnk74VV10DENR2au0PR8VK5OCZ0mFycOiGg1MdXO6f2f5bg8JcTPGcn1s/s1600/Eaux2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0tyIjhUvidDevVj-AQTS3xyozEApLmytkmOFRO5WH62eIvQhK5doqaRbtCn5Gzt4gFqJncEvaHVyquk7hJ5fnk74VV10DENR2au0PR8VK5OCZ0mFycOiGg1MdXO6f2f5bg8JcTPGcn1s/s320/Eaux2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>All we know about the actor, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carmilla Salvatorelli, is that s/he was a short person, a circus performer, introduced to Anger by <a href="http://gvarts.blogspot.com/2010/02/fellinis-la-dolce-vita.html">Frederico Fellini</a>. </span> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anger wanted a short actor to make the fountains seem larger. The actor is otherwise unknown. When I first read about this film in the 1990s the general assumption was the actor was Carmillo Salvatorelli, that is that this is a cross-acting part. Now IMDB has changed the credit to say Carmilla Salvatorelli, and likewise the booklet that comes with the <i>Magic Lantern Cycle</i><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=agevawhswh-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0039A9MCK&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe> DVD box. However in his revised notes for the Cinema 16 catalogue, Anger wrote Carmillo Salvatorelli. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The change of mind of over Carmillo/a Salvatorelli ‘s gender is no longer mentioned. However it is the fact that she has generally been considered to be male, that has resulted in this being considered a classic of queer cinema.</span><br />
<ul><li>P Adams Sitney. <i>Visionary film: the American avant-garde<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=agevawhswh-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=019514886X&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>, 1943-2000.</i> Oxford University Press, 2002: 91-3. </li>
<li>Deborah Allison. “<i>Eaux D’Artifice</i>: Wet Dreams and Water Sports in the Garden of Delights”. <i>Senses of Cinema</i>, 46, 2008. <a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2008/cteq/eaux-artifice/" title="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2008/cteq/eaux-artifice/">www.sensesofcinema.com/2008/cteq/eaux-artifice/</a> </li>
<li>“Eaux D’Artifice”. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaux_d%27Artifice" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaux_d%27Artifice">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaux_d%27Artifice</a> </li>
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Script by Joel & Ethen Coen. <br />
115 minutes1990 <br />
<blockquote>
Gabriel Byrne plays Tom Reagan <br />
Marcia Gay Harden plays Verna <br />
John Turturro plays Bernie <br />
Albert Finnie plays Leo</blockquote>
Country of finance: US <br />
Nationality of director: US <br />
Location of story: an unnamed city <br />
Filming location: New Orleans<br />
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The much acclaimed Coen Brothers gangster movie loosely based on <i>Red Harvest</i> and <i>Glass Key</i> by Dashiell Hammet and <i>Jojimbo</i> by Akira Kurosawa.<br />
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When Tom Reagan bursts into the ladies’ room, notice, if you don’t blink, the large women in black and white: an obvious extra cameo by one of the other principles.<br />
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Then there is the woman who screams when Reagan falls upon her. She is played by Helen Jolly who is unknown except for this film. What do you think?<br />
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<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/07/amanda-lear-1939-performer.html">Amanda Lear</a> was a disco star in the 1970s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/11/sylvester-james-1947-1988-singer.html">Sylvester James</a> is best known for the disco classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Make_Me_Feel_%28Mighty_Real%29">"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real</a>)", 1978.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/11/eva-robins-1958-performer.html">Eva Robin's</a> as Cassandra recorded the classic, Disco Panther, 1977.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/04/romy-haag-1951-actor-singer-nightclub.html">Romy Haag's</a> singles in the late 1970s.<br />
<a href="http://gvarts.blogspot.com/2010/06/movies-and-videos-of-divine-harris.html">Divine</a> became a disco singer in the 1980s: “You think that you’re a man”<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/07/brian-belovitch-1956-housewife.html">Brian Belovitch</a> as Tish Gervais was a disco singer in the 1990s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2007/07/whatever-happened-to-lanah.html">Al Pillay</a>, after his faux sex change, became a disco singer in the 1990s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/05/cristina-ortiz-rodrguez-1964-sex-worker.html">Cristina Ortiz Rodriguez</a> sang ‘Veneno pa tu piel’ in 1996.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-6104655772189140122011-03-05T22:41:00.004-05:002019-12-28T11:06:00.928-05:00“A Gang of Trannies”: Gender Discourse and Punk Culture– a review of the chapter by Viviane Namaste<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xORg3JKr7v4/TXMCZfvaw0I/AAAAAAAAB5E/hPO7s-o4y84/s1600-h/image2.png"><img alt="image" border="0" src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/_xORg3JKr7v4/TXMCZ12NS0I/AAAAAAAAB5I/CqFV-bxGFqE/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800" height="34" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244"></a> – Jayne County.<br />
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I have previously reviewed Viviane Namaste’s <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/09/viviane-namaste-invisible-lives-review.html">Invisible Lives</a>. In it I said nothing about her chapter on punk, it being a stand-alone chapter that does not change the overall argument of the book.<br />
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What is punk? Is it a genre, a community, an attitude, a brand? All of these? Who was active in it, especially trans persons? Namaste has no interest in any of these questions. On the first page she writes: <br />
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“This chapter examines how gender is organized at a micrological, textual level. Focusing on historical and contemporary media representations of punk culture, I show how discourse about punk is thoroughly masculinist and describe the conditions in which this conception of punk culture emerged. This gendered portrayal of punk thus authorizes a social world in which punk excludes transsexual and transgendered people. … I choose punk as an ‘object’ of analysis precisely because of the unlikely associations between MTF transsexual and punk identities. Yet I remain uninterested in a type of historical inquiry that would establish the presence of MTF transsexuals in punk culture”. </blockquote>
We notice at once that Namaste does not deign to notice trans men who were active in punk, ++not even her friend <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/09/max-wolf-valerio-1957-poet.html">Max Valerio</a>.<br />
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Namaste starts with an article in <i>Photo Police,</i> a scandal newspaper, about Val d’Or, Quebec, that assumes that punks are violent, and then a local Montréal paper that is surprised that punks joined in to clean up a local park. These articles are dated the early 1990s. She takes this as typical of mainstream media attitudes to punk.<br />
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She cites Matias Viegener, writing in the 1990s, who seems to think that queer punk is something new at that time. She quotes him: “Although the original punk movement seemed to have little tolerance for gays and lesbians, its edginess proved ready-made for a new generations of queers”. She then declares three perspectives in the academic studies of punk: Punk as asexual; punk as gender fluid and punk as heterosexist, homophobic and misogynist. She reminds us that Punk was preceded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_rock">Glam rock</a>, and mentions <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">David Bowie</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan">Marc Bolan</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Dolls">New York Dolls</a>. She rightly follows the Glam themes into Punk and quotes one song by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzcocks">Buzzcocks</a>.<br />
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She then goes into detail about an incident in 1976 when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_County">Jayne County</a> (when she was still Wayne) was heckled by ex-wrestler <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manitoba">Dick Manitoba</a>, singer in the band, The Dictators, shouting homophobic taunts when County was performing at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGBs">CBGBs</a> in New York. Manitoba then climbed on the stage holding a beer-mug, and County hit him with the microphone stand. County cut his hair short and wore a false beard, but was arrested some days later and spent one night in jail. Other musicians and performers including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones">Ramones</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28band%29">Blondie</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_heads">Talking Heads</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Dolls">The New York Dolls</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Curtis">Jackie Curtis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Woodlawn">Holly Woodlawn</a>, <a href="http://gvarts.blogspot.com/2010/06/movies-and-videos-of-divine-harris.html">Divine</a> put on a benefit to meet County’s legal costs. Three times Manitoba failed to show in court and therefore the charges were dropped (County:108-110).<br />
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Namaste does not give the year, fails to mention that Jayne County was still Wayne at that point, confuses CBGBs with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%27s_Kansas_City">Max’s Kansas City</a>, does not give Manitoba’s name, does not mention that he failed to show. She makes it a major point that the other musicians and performers put on the benefit for a transgender musician as if this were not normal, and from another perspective she fails to mention that Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, Divine were also transgender. The anecdote does not carry the weight that she puts on it.<br />
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Namaste repeats a report that she had from <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/03/margaret-deirdre-ohartigan-195-activist.html">Margaret O’Hartigan</a> about the band Skafish as another example of trans punk (++although from what I have read they were more a gender-fuck band).<br />
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Namaste is quite right that The Sex Pistols became the iconic Punk group, and that in their wake other punk groups became conformist and the image was much more masculine. The pogo and the slam dance and the mosh pit were off-putting for many potential punters. Namaste gives this as an erasure of transgender people, in line with the general theme of her book.<br />
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There are so many questions, not to mention facts, that Namaste does not even consider.<br />
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All genres change as one or two artists are given media attention. Likewise conformity afflicts those who come later to the chagrin of the pioneers. It is not just the queer punks who complained about the conformist slam dunkers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rotten">Johnny Rotten/Lydon</a> expressed the same complaint.<br />
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We might also note <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show">The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show</a> which was a celebration of non-conformity when it opened in 1973. Many of the early fans were quite put off after the film version came out, and performances turned into rigid conformity.<br />
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Where did the queer punks go? Many did not go anywhere. They continued playing punk, but were ignored by the mainstream press. As a trans woman, Namaste should be aware that the true images of minority groups are frequently not reflected in the mainstream press. Other forms of Punk kept going.<br />
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Other queer punks went into New Romanticism in the early 1980s and the Goth movement after that. Goth also went through a phase of masculinization. Goodlad makes the interesting observation that “Hardcore masculine youth styles are economically preferable to androgynous styles such as goth in part because audiences segregated by gender and age – particularly audiences composed of young men – are especially valuable to the advertisers of youth-related products (p109)”.<br />
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Another angle not explored is punk as dandyism or homeovestity. This angle is commented on in the film, <i>The Filth and the Fury</i>. Malcolm McLaren ran a clothing boutique in the Kings Road before he became the Sex Pistols manager. Very few theorists compare transvestity and homeovestity.<br />
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So are trans performers erased in Punk? Whether yes or no, it is very easy to come up with a considerable list of trans punkers, reflecting all flavours of trans, and all flavours of punk.<br />
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Namaste is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault">Foucaultian</a>. She actually argues that she needs a Foucaultian approach to sort out out different views of punk by time and place. Personally I would have expected any competent journalist to do exactly that. Foucaultians are not interested in facts and statistics, and to repeat from the quote above: “Yet I remain uninterested in a type of historical inquiry that would establish the presence of MTF transsexuals in punk culture”.<br />
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Not being interested and not giving evidence of presence is surely a participation in erasure.<br />
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I do not share this lack of interest. I think that it is a point worthy of note that so many trans women and also trans men have found punk to be a genre or attitude through which they can express themselves.<br />
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A final point. Namaste, in her text, does not mention <b><span style="font-size: medium;">even one</span></b> surgically completed trans punk, although as you will see below, there are several candidates.<br />
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Pre-punk</h3>
The one-time impersonator club, <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/04/82-club.html">82 Club</a>, evolved into a glam and punk bar in the early 1970s. <br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Dolls">New York Dolls</a> played with androgyny, but did not go very far. <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_County">Jayne County</a> was a punk before Punk Rock in the early 1970s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/04/lou-reed-1942-singer-songwriter.html">Lou Reed</a> had a trans lover, <a href="https://zagria.blogspot.com/2019/01/rachel-humphreys-1952-199-hairdresser.html">Rachel Humphreys</a> and wrote a few songs about trans persons.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Punk</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/01/stella-nova-1960-2010-musician.html">Stella Nova</a> auditioned for the Sex Pistols in 1975, and then was in the Rich Kids with ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock. <br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2007/07/whatever-happened-to-lanah.html">Al Pillay</a> started out as a gender-bender punk in Spit Like Paint, although after his faux sex change, he became a disco singer in the 1990s. <br />
Gender-fuck Skafish were the first punk band from Chicago.<br />
Sometimes cross-dresser <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rowland">Kevin Rowland</a> played punk before forming Dexy's Midnight Runners in 1979. <br />
Chelsea Godwin played punk rock at CBGBs. <br />
<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_McNamara">Fanny McNamara</a> and Pedro Almodovar performed as a drag-punk act in the late 1970s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2014/10/anderson-toone-1958-drag-king-performer.html">Anderson Toone</a> played keyboard in the postpunk group, The Bloods.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-France_Garcia">Marie-France Garcia’s</a> debut single was almost punk.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Trash_Debutantes">Ginger Coyote</a>, editor of Punk Globe, singer with White Trash Debutantes.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/02/donna-lee-parsons-1945-2003-recording.html">Donna Lee Parsons</a> wrote a punk fanzine and later was recording manager on Real <i>Men Don’t Floss</i> by The Young and the Useless, and <i>Polly Wog Stew</i>, by the Beastie Boys in the early 1980s.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/01/claudia-wonder-1954-2010-activist.html">Claudia Wonder</a> was in the punk band, Jardins das Delícias.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/03/genesis-p-orridge-1950-musician-and.html">Genesis P Orridge</a> played punk and other genres while in Psychic TV in the early 1980s.<br />
<a href="http://www.nyrock.com/conf17.htm">Dean Johnson</a> was a drag-punk musician.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/12/benjamin-dickerson-1960-1999-musician.html">Benjamin Dickerson</a> was a blues punk drag queen.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/04/chloe-dzubilo-1960-2011-equestrian.html">Chloe Dzubil</a>o was in the punk band Transisters in the early 1980s.<br />
Bambi Lake was a punkette.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/12/lazlo-pearlman-1972-actor.html">Lazlo Pearlman</a> fronted punk bands bands Skinny Wiresand Jezebel's Kiss.<br />
<a href="http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2011/09/max-wolf-valerio-1957-poet.html">Max Valerio</a> has worked with punk bands.<br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/congratulations-thank-you/id399221236">Animal Prufrock</a> actually played at the Michigan Women’s music festival.<br />
++ <a href="http://badtriprecords.biz/bonzeblayk/">bonze blayk</a> was in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Samoans">Angry Samoans</a> <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Carter">Raphael Carter</a> is a postcyberpunk novelist.<br />
<a href="http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/guest-post-using-the-transgender-umbrella-to-describe-the-steampunk-parasol/">Lucretia Dearfour</a> is a steampunk novelist.<br />
The 1996 film, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_for_Girls">Different for Girls</a></i>, features an affair between a trans woman and a punk.<br />
The 1998 film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Goldmine">Velvet Goldmine</a></i> about glam rock with significant queer content,<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_Davis">Vaginal Davis</a> is second generation punk.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch_%28film%29">Hedwig and the Angry Inch</a>, 2002 – a punk musical about a trans person.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Breedlove">Lynn Breedlove</a>, singer in punk band Tribe8, novelist, comedian.<br />
Cross-dresser <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Viglione">Brian Viglione</a> drums in punk bands when not performing in the Dresden Dolls.<br />
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<ul>
<li>Dick Hebdige. <i>Subculture: The Meaning of Style</i>. Methuen & Co, 1979: 108,121,123 . </li>
<li>Greil Marcus. <i>Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century</i>. Harvard University press, 1989:36, 75,80 . </li>
<li>Matias Viegener. “ ‘The Only Haircut that Makes Sense Anymore’: Queer Subculture and Gay Resistance”. In Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, and John Greyson (eds). <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Looks-Perspectives-Lesbian-Video/dp/0921284721?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video.</a></i><img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0921284721" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1"> New York: Routledge, 1993. </li>
<li>Jayne County with Rupert Smith. <i>Man Enough to be a Woman</i>. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995:108-10.</li>
<li>Viviane K.Namaste. <i>Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000: chp 4. </li>
<li>Julien Temple (dir). <i>The Filth and the Fury.</i> With the Sex Pistols. UK/US 108 mins 2000.</li>
<li>Charlotte Cooper. “Remembering. <i>The Skinny</i>, 07 Nov 2007. <a href="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/40744-remembering" title="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/40744-remembering">www.theskinny.co.uk/article/40744-remembering</a>. </li>
<li>Lauren M.E. Goodlad. “Looking for Something Forever Gone: Gothic Masculinity, Androgyny, and Ethics at the Turn of the Millenium”. <i>Cultural Critique</i>, Spring 2007: 104-126. </li>
<li>Lucretia Dearfour. “Using the Transgender Umbrella to Describe the Steampunk Parasol”. <i>SteamPunk</i>, Oct 26, 2010. <a href="http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/guest-post-using-the-transgender-umbrella-to-describe-the-steampunk-parasol/">www.steampunkmagazine.com/guest-post-using-the-transgender-umbrella-to-describe-the-steampunk-parasol/</a>. </li>
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Dick Manitoba threatened to sue a Canadian musician for calling a project ‘Manitoba’. So far he has not sued the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba">Province of Manitoba</a>.<br />
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Trans persons were not the only sex-gender minority in Glam-Punk. The world’s best known convicted pedophile, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Glitter">Gary Glitter</a> (Paul Gadd) was a Glam rocker.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-82053366510679116332011-01-31T15:31:00.002-05:002011-02-07T09:32:34.163-05:00Doris Aversham .Doris was a fictitious amorphous character who turned up at various Gay Liberation Front events in and around London in the early seventies.<br />
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Sometimes she was the prudish heterosexual, sometimes an auntie with gay relatives. She was an agony aunt for the GLF paper <i>Come Together</i>, and she wrote shocked letters to newspapers.<br />
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She was even once played by a woman, to open a gay jumble sale in Nottingham in 1975.<br />
<ul><li> Kris Kirk & Ed Heath. <i>Men in Frocks</i>. London: Gay Men’s Press. 1984: 98.</li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-42541307305038166972011-01-09T18:09:00.002-05:002011-01-09T18:13:21.391-05:00Peacock<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=agevawhswh-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0037E8HOC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Directed by Michael Lander<br />
Script by Michael Lander & Ryan O Roy.<br />
Edited by Sally Menke.<br />
90 minutes 2010 Lionsgate<br />
<blockquote>Cillian Murphy plays John/Emma Skillpa<br />
Susan Sarandon plays Fanny Crill<br />
Ellen Page plays Maggie<br />
Keith Carradine plays Mayor Ray Crill</blockquote>Country of finance: US <br />
Nationality of director: US <br />
Location of story: Peacock, Nebraska<br />
Filming location: Iowa<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Synopsis</span></b><br />
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<b>*** This review may contain spoilers ***</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQazpBJZ7FXwHTxGg9Q-yQYAlqNk5UaFqdeB3lmBwTctQWO5je2wJAiFVsyOf1tjDPnPPaET9IqHEDKbl99zRV-WdDYKyf77dp1KkVYwFHhCHN3dM5WES8rNpUap1Hb4b3lDE-SG6kLWg/s1600/Peacock2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQazpBJZ7FXwHTxGg9Q-yQYAlqNk5UaFqdeB3lmBwTctQWO5je2wJAiFVsyOf1tjDPnPPaET9IqHEDKbl99zRV-WdDYKyf77dp1KkVYwFHhCHN3dM5WES8rNpUap1Hb4b3lDE-SG6kLWg/s1600/Peacock2.jpg" /></a>John has a low-level job in a bank in small-town Nebraska. Every morning Emma, whom no-one in town has met, makes his breakfast, does the washing and leaves him a note re shopping. John keeps a tin box under the outside stairs so that Emma will not know about his savings account and his sports cards. The room of the recently deceased Mrs Skillpa has been left untouched. Only a few minutes into the film we find out that John and Emma share the same body. One day a train caboose slips off the tracks and ends up in the Skillpa back yard as Emma is putting out the washing. This results in others meeting Emma. The local mayor wishes to use the derailment for political advantage. Emma is pleased to let him, John is antagonistic. Maggie comes by to ask why there have been no cheques since Mrs Skillpa, John’s mother, died. Emma drives her home and finds out that Maggie’s son was fathered by John – an attempt by Mrs Skillpa to make a man out of her son. Fanny Krill attempts to recruit Emma for her work at the women’s shelter, which results in John missing time at work. John attempts to run from Emma and the memory of his mother, and takes a room at the local motel. However when he opens the overnight bag that he has brought, he finds the dress and wig that define Emma. Emma decides to kill off John. She picks up a man, takes him the the motel room, kills him, dresses him in John’s suit and sets the room on fire.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Who are they?</span></b><br />
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This is the first and so far only film by Michael Lander.<br />
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This is the first and so far only film written by Ryan O Roy.<br />
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Editor Sally Menke died in September 2010 while hiking.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillian_Murphy">Cillian Murphy</a> is an Irish actor of growing note who has played cis male parts in <i>28 Days Later</i>, <i>Girl with a</i> <i>Pearl Earring</i>, <i>Cold Mountain</i>, <i>The Wind that Shakes the Barley</i>, Batman and <i>Inception</i>. He also played a trans woman, the lead character Kitten Braden, in Neil Jordan’s <i>Breakfast on Pluto –</i> in fact Cillian lobbied Neil for several years to make the film.<br />
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Susan Sarandon, of course, was Janet in the <i>Rocky Horror Picture Show</i>. She has been acting since 1969, has been in loads and loads of movies, and if she were British would probably be a Dame.<br />
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Ellen Page is an up and coming young actress.<br />
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Keith Carradine is part of the Carradine acting dynasty, has also been in loads of movies, is especially noted for his roles in Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph films. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Curiosities</span></b><br />
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In the same way that most films made in Toronto or Vancouver are claimed to be set south of the border, Peacock is filmed in Iowa, but claims to be set in Nebraska.<br />
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The when of the film is left vague, but as no-one has a television, it must be set in the early 1950s. Although the women’s shelter and the feminist orientation of Fanny Frill do seem to be a bit anachronistic re this assumption.<br />
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John has obvious beard stubble, while Emma does not. Emma is not shown dealing with this. <br />
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Nobody comments on how similar looking Emma is to John.<br />
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Whilst being a much better film than most of the rubbish that plays the multiplexes, <i>Peacock</i> was not released to either the festival or to the art-house circuit. The film was delayed for over a year after completion and then went straight to DVD. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Is John/Emma a transvestite?</span></b><br />
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A few minutes into the film we watch as Emma undresses to transform into John and we see that she wears male underwear. This is unusual for a transvestite.<br />
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John and Emma are both ignorant of what the other does. This is a symptom of multiple personality. The shrinks equivocate about whether one can be both trans and multiple. The DSM has said that to be transsexual, one must not have any (other) psychiatric condition. Other shrinks talk about co-morbidity. Both of these positions of course make the unreasonable assumption that being trans is in itself a psychiatric condition.<br />
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>It is difficult to watch this reacting as if John is a real-world transvestite. Some of the life options are real on this reading, but they do not stay so.<br />
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The ghost behind the screenplay is obviously <i><a href="http://gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/08/psycho.html">Psycho</a></i>’s Norman Bates. Both John and Norman are dominated by their dead mothers. <br />
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Another film that is echoed in Roman Polanski’s <i><a href="http://gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/08/le-locataire.html">The Tenant</a></i>, where the personality of the previous tenant of the room takes over Trelkovky’s body and life.<br />
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The film is not about choice, about deciding who you are and taking steps to be yourself. It is about an other that takes you over, and even kills the original. <br />
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There is another ghost behind the screenplay, one that Lander and Roy may not have heard of. The recurring voice of the dead mother constitutes an introjection. Remember how <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/10/sanda-davis-1955-psychotherapist-mother.html">Sanda Davis</a> explained how introjections can take you over, and that transsexuality can and should be treated and cured as an introjection. But apart from me and three other people, nobody has read Sanda Davis. I think that Davis owes much more to Psycho than Peacock owes to Sanda Davis.<br />
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As I said about Norman Bates, John/Emma is not like any other transvestite that you may have met.<br />
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Incoming Speaker John Boehner and the Catholic League objected and achieved a partial censorship.<br />
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Romaine Brooks. <i>Self Portrait</i>, 1923.<br />
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Janet Flanner, aka Genet, by Berenice Abbott, 1927<br />
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<i>Dancing Sailors</i>, 1917, by Charles Demuth.<br />
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<i>Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a Taxi, NYC</i>, 1991, by Nan Goldin<br />
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<i>I Look Just Like My Daddy</i>, 2003, by Cass Bird<br />
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<ul><li><i>Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. <a href="http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/hideseek/index.html" title="http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/hideseek/index.html">http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/hideseek/index.html</a>.</i></li>
<li>Brian Logan. “Hide/Seek: Too shocking for America”. <i>The Guardian</i>, 5 December 2010. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/05/hide-seek-gay-art-smithsonian" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/05/hide-seek-gay-art-smithsonian">www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/05/hide-seek-gay-art-smithsonian</a></li>
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Directed by Sergei Livnev <br />
Script by Sergei Livnev & Vladimir Valutsky<br />
93 minutes 1994<br />
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Aleksei Serebryakov as Evdokim Kuznetsov <br />
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Country of finance: Russia<br />
Nationality of director: Russian<br />
Location of story: USSR<br />
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<h1>Synopsis</h1>As part of a experiment to meet the demand by Stalin that the Soviet Union have more soldiers, Evdokiia Kuznetsova is taken from the gulag and is transformed into a man, Evdokim. He then becomes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement">Stakhanovite</a> building the Moscow underground in the 1930s, marries a female fellow worker, and adopts a child, Dolores, who had been orphaned in the Spanish Civil War.<br />
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However Kuznetsov became angry and attacked Stalin. He was shot in the scuffle. Paralysed and unable to speak, Evdokim was turned into a hero once more: he had supposedly saved Stalin's life and was exhibited as a museum piece. His wife commanded his thoughts, and even wrote his book "Hammer and Sickle." <br />
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<ul><li>Birgit Beumers. “Myth-making and myth-taking: Lost ideals and the war in contemporary Russian cinema”. <i>Canadian Slavonic Papers</i>. Mar-Jun 2000. Online at: <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200003/ai_n8890675/" title="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200003/ai_n8890675/">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200003/ai_n8890675/</a> </li>
<li>Aleksandr Prokhorov. “ “I Need Some Life-Assertive Character’ or How to Die in the Most inspiring Pose: Bodied in the Stalinist Museum of Hammer and Sickle”. <i>Studies in Slavonic Cultures</i>. 1, Jan 2000. <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/%7Eslavic/sisc/SISC1/prokhorov.pdf" title="http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc/SISC1/prokhorov.pdf">http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc/SISC1/prokhorov.pdf</a> </li>
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Directed by Euros Lyn<br />
Script by Russel T Davies<br />
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Christopher Eccleston plays the Doctor<br />
Billie Piper plays Rose<br />
Zo<span style="font-size: small;">ë </span>Wanamaker voices Cassandra<br />
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Nationality of director: Welsh<br />
Location of story: a spacestation<br />
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The Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future to witness the end of the Earth as the Sun expands and destroys it. Observation is from a space station, and the guests are the super-rich. One of the guests is Cassandra, who has had 708 operations and is now just a stretched face. She is described as the last Earthling (which of course ignores the two minions who move her frame and frequently moisturize her). <br />
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Incidentally, Casandra who uses makeup and mentions various ex-husbands is obviously to be taken as female, started out as boy. This makes her one of the more rococo specimens of the old film favourite, the transy killer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course referring to this series as number 1 is high revisionism. The original season 1 of Dr Who was back in 1963. </span>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-15119662296023839852010-06-06T13:12:00.005-04:002015-10-01T19:38:42.246-04:00Steppenwolf <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Novel by Herman Hesse. Berlin: G. Fisher Verlag 1927. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Steppenwolf-Hermann-Hesse/dp/0140282580?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">English translation</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0140282580" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by Basil Creighton. London: Martin Secker. New York: Henry Hold & Co. 1929. Many other editions.<br />
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Directed by Fred Haines <br />
Script by Fred Haines based on the novel by Herman Hesse <br />
106 minutes 1974 <br />
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Max von Sydow plays Harry Haller<br />
Dominique Sanda plays Hermine<br />
Pierre Clémenti plays Pablo</blockquote>
Country of finance: USA/Switzerland/UK/France/Italy<br />
Nationality of director: US<br />
Location of story: Germany<br />
Filming location: Basel, Hamburg.<br />
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Synopsis. </h1>
Harry Haller, a man devoted to the high culture of Goethe and Mozart but alienated by the shallow bourgeois pretence of admiring that culture, sees himself as having a second animalistic nature, a wolf of the steppes. However he is in despair and on the verge of suicide when he encounters Hermine in a chance visit to a dance bar. She offers him friendship and teaches him to value the little things in life, to dance and to take drugs. From the start he notices that her features have a masculine aspect, and feels that she reminds him of his childhood friend Hermann. He eventually fully falls in love with her at the costume ball where she is dressed as a man. She and Pablo, a jazz saxophonist, take Harry to a magic theatre where he is able to encounter some other of his myriad personalities.<br />
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Who are they?</h1>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" target="_blank">Herman Hesse</a> (1877 – 1962) was an influential German-Swiss novelist with interests in Buddhism and Jungianism.<br />
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Melvin Fishman produced only this film. He was a student of Jung and Alchemy and wanted Steppenwolf to be the first Jungian Film. The film was in pre-production for seven years as Fishman built up a relationship with the Hesse family to obtain the film rights. He did lots of drugs and had a heart attack shortly after the film was finished. Two years later another heart attack killed him. He died with 20 Swiss Francs in his pocket, and no other money.<br />
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Richard Herland produced one television series and four films between 1964 and 1986. He raised the money for <i>Steppenwolf</i>.<br />
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Peter Sprague, the major financier, was a scion of US industrial wealth who thought of himself as radical.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Haines" target="_blank">Fred Haines</a> (1936 – 2008), from Los Angeles, fluent in French and German, did a degree in literature. He met film director Joseph Strick and together they wrote the script of James Joyce’s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%281967_film%29" target="_blank">Ulysses</a></i>, 1967. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was a co-writer of Strick’s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer_%28novel%29#Adaptions" target="_blank">Tropic of Cancer</a></i>, but took his name from the credits after a disagreement. <i>Steppenwolf</i> in the only film that he directed.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Von_Sydow" target="_blank">Max von Sydow</a> has been in over 140 films. He is one of Sweden’s most distinguished actors. He has played both God and the Devil.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Sanda" target="_blank">Dominique Sanda</a> is a French actress who was especially known for her roles in Italian films. She has been in 54 films.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Cl%C3%A9menti" target="_blank">Pierre Clémenti</a>, also French, had just completed a two-year sentence for drug charges.<br />
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Curiosities</h1>
The post-<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabriskie_Point_%28film%29" target="_blank">Zabriskie-Point</a></i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" target="_blank">Michelangelo Antonioni</a> was approached to direct, but he thought that the book was unfilmable. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frankenheimer" target="_blank">John Frankenheimer</a> and actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coburn" target="_blank">James Coburn</a> were also approached to direct.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary" target="_blank">Timothy Leary</a>, on the run from prison, was considered for the part of Harry Haller, but he gave two acid tabs to Sprague who then had a bad trip.<br />
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Conrad Rooks, a heir to the Avon cosmetics fortune, who had made the druggie film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaqua_%28film%29" target="_blank">Chappaqua</a></i>, was also courting the Hesse family for <i>Steppenwolf</i>, but ended up with <i>Siddhartha</i> instead.<br />
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While the film was made in English, none of the actors are native English speakers.<br />
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Peter Sprague, the major financier ended up owning the rights. He put the film on a shelf for two years.<br />
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The colours were wrong when the prints were made.<br />
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The special effects were cutting edge for 1974.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mati_Klarwein" target="_blank">Mati Klarwein</a> (1932 – 2002), who did the album covers for Santana’s <i>Abraxas</i> and Miles Davis’ <i>Bitches Brew,</i> painted the images in the corridors of the Magic Theatre.<br />
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The Czech artist, <a href="http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/hesse/publications/bradac.html">Jaroslav Bradac</a> , did the animated sequence.<br />
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Decades earlier than the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_%28franchise%29" target="_blank">Terminator</a></i> films and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28franchise%29" target="_blank">The Matrix</a></i>, <i>Steppenwolf</i> includes a sequence where humans are fighting a war against the machines.<br />
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The entire film is available on YouTube.<br />
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“…it seems to me that of all my books <i>Steppenwolf</i> is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other, and frequently it is actually the affirmative and enthusiastic readers, rather than those who rejected the book, who have reacted to it oddly…”–Hermann Hesse in the 1961 prologue to <i>Steppenwolf.</i><br />
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I was one of very few people who saw the film on the big screen.<br />
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Interpretation</h1>
Do we have one personality? Or is it an illusion? Early in the book, Harry sees himself as having two personalities: the spiritual, high-culture snob; and the wolf from the steppes who loathes the bourgeoisie.<br />
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When he enters the Magic Theatre the illusion, his fake personality are fractured and he finds that he has thousands of personalities. Significantly he does not have any female personalities, or perhaps he merely fails to acknowledge them.<br />
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There is a suggestion in the text that somehow Hermine is not real - as such she would be Harry's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus" target="_blank">Anima</a> (Hesse was influenced by Carl Jung at the time he wrote the book). This idea is supported by the fact that 'Hermine' is the feminine form of the Hesse’s first name. As Harry is not able to recognize his feminine selves, his anima is projected outwards. and takes the form of an independent person. The ‘fact’ that he maybe/maybe not kills Hermine at the end would constitute a further refusal to accept his inner woman.<br />
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<li>Janny Fabian. “Jung hearts run free”. <i>The Guardian</i>. 21 April 2000. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/apr/21/4" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/apr/21/4">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/apr/21/4</a>. </li>
<li>“Steppenwolf (1974)”. 366 Weird Movies. Mar 24, 2009. <a href="http://366weirdmovies.com/15-steppenwolf-1974">http://366weirdmovies.com/15-steppenwolf-1974</a> </li>
<li>“Steppenwolf (novel)”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29</a> </li>
<li>“Steppenwolf (film)”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28film%29" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28film%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28film%29</a> </li>
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Bert was an FBI agent from Minnesota. He joined the FBI in 1935 to fight Nazi spies.<br />
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When FBI Director <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/05/john-edgar-hoover-1895-1972-police.html" target="_blank">J. Edgar Hoover</a> saw him he was re-assigned as a special agent en femme using the name Bettina.<br />
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Hoover kept him from quitting by a mixture of promises and intimidation. He even had Horgson’s legal identity changed to ‘female’, so that it would be illegal for him to wear men’s clothes. Hoover gave orders that after his own death, Horgson was to be confined to a high-security nursing home as a national security risk.<br />
<ul><li>Katrum Schultz. “J. Edgar Hoover Ordered Agents To Impersonate Women”. <i>Weekly World News</i>. 11/11/2002. Online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/cKKASn">http://bit.ly/cKKASn</a>. </li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-51914747529305860252010-03-19T13:53:00.002-04:002010-03-19T13:59:16.027-04:00Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980) photographer, set & costume designer.Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was the son of a prosperous timber merchant. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, where he read history, art and architecture but left without a degree.<br />
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The first photograph that he sold was of the Shakespearean scholar, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadie_Rylands" target="_blank">George Rylands</a>, in drag as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_of_Malfi" target="_blank">Duchess of Malfi.</a> It was published in <i>Vogue</i>. Beaton worked regularly for <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_%28magazine%29" target="_blank">Vogue</a></i> from 1927 in addition to having his own studio. He became known for his fashion, society and royalty photographs.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDRbTQGJ5H0Ee4QF4vBbQ7v9l52OEIVQJ7S3GYsPj6MWJDEMZ5_20qpvWvb9RruAlHH01HOZwBh1jyficSayrG3-Veaa785Pq7Bc_82LQ19ojS8esbzGIogP4BxfU_JS5phgOZpgxBY4/s1600-h/baronessvonbulopmyroyalpast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDRbTQGJ5H0Ee4QF4vBbQ7v9l52OEIVQJ7S3GYsPj6MWJDEMZ5_20qpvWvb9RruAlHH01HOZwBh1jyficSayrG3-Veaa785Pq7Bc_82LQ19ojS8esbzGIogP4BxfU_JS5phgOZpgxBY4/s320/baronessvonbulopmyroyalpast.jpg" /></a><br />
In 1934 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Berners" target="_blank">Gerald Berniers</a>, under the name Adela Quebec, published his spoof novel, <i>The Girls of Radcliff Hall</i>, which featured himself, Beaton and others as lesbian schoolgirls at an institution named after the famous writer. Beaton attempted to have all the copies destroyed and it became a very rare book until reprinted in 2000.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPcDLmnFGC9q99cVf-6AWLNLhyGMlhFB-NDSV1yAOxWI-xBkpeKrBqI5dzfNerIj61v2n7UxAuU9wFIuEBvWOA84tcbEQzQU_saCPo6tLNc-ZSGklm5oKGRgRS3c_BCCDjM9qfh7y9JE/s1600-h/VonBulop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPcDLmnFGC9q99cVf-6AWLNLhyGMlhFB-NDSV1yAOxWI-xBkpeKrBqI5dzfNerIj61v2n7UxAuU9wFIuEBvWOA84tcbEQzQU_saCPo6tLNc-ZSGklm5oKGRgRS3c_BCCDjM9qfh7y9JE/s320/VonBulop.jpg" /></a>Five years later Beaton published his own spoof of the memoirs by minor royals that were popular at the time. <i>My Royal Past, By Baroness von Bulop as told to Cecil Beaton</i> features photographs of Beaton and some of his friends crossdressed as the characters in the book.<br />
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During the war Beaton worked for the Ministry of Information. Later he photographed many Hollywood and Broadway stars. He expanded into set and costume design for both stage and film, and won Oscars for the costumes in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_%281958_film%29" target="_blank">Gigi</a></i>, 1958 and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_%28film%29" target="_blank">My Fair Lady</a></i>, 1964. He was an influence on photographers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_McBean" target="_blank">Angus McBean</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bailey_%28photographer%29" target="_blank">David Bailey</a>. He had affairs with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooper" target="_blank">Gary Cooper</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo" target="_blank">Greta Garbo</a>.<br />
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He was knighted in 1972, and two years later was paralysed on the right side of his body after a stroke. He died in his sleep at age 76.<br />
<ul><li>Adela Quebec. <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Radcliff-Hall-Lord-Berners/dp/1893450066?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Girls of Radcliff Hall</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1893450066" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>. Privately published 1934. Reprinted as by Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Berners. London: Montcalm, 2000. </li>
<li>Theodora Louise Alexina Ludmilla Sophie von Bülop, Baroness. <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baroness-Princess-Theodora-Ludmilla-Eckermann-Waldstein/dp/B000N8G620?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">My Royal Past</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000N8G620" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, By Baroness von Bulop as told to Cecil Beaton</i>. London: B.T Batsford. 1939. Reprint: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson xiv, 105 pp1960. </li>
<li>“Cecil Beaton”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Beaton">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Beaton</a>. </li>
<li>“The Girls of Radcliff Hall”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girls_of_Radcliff_Hall">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girls_of_Radcliff_Hall</a>. </li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-14277554467985344512010-03-14T22:10:00.002-04:002012-09-30T19:28:22.687-04:00Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) and Gerald du Maurier (1873 - 1934) …at a theatrical garden party in the late 1920s.<br />
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This photograph is found on page 40 of Terry Castle<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=agevawhswh-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0231105967&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>. <i>Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits</i>. New York: Columbia University Press 1996.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-61992626853620747972010-02-28T16:26:00.004-05:002010-02-28T16:33:09.333-05:00Earthlings Welcome HereEpisode 2.13 of <i>Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles</i> (SCC)<br />
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Directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá. <br />
Script by Natalie Chaidez<br />
60 minutes 2008<br />
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<blockquote>Lena Headey plays Sarah Connor <br />
Dinah Lenney plays Eileen/Alan Park</blockquote><br />
Country of finance: USA <br />
Nationality of director: USA<br />
Location of story: USA <br />
Filming location: USA<br />
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<h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFrHFHK1MQhMDFYRFhF-GjKLRv5jqUUOVzWwHDOtWU_RHEDG9KsV5RIEVYPUxlbDVTUdaUk5nTWQCVmVo8906Ua2fVeSN-rtGkXlnqhkWaM3fyL-1uwuxY1hI8aqNC4mj_NNVpUWs__A/s1600-h/scc1.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="20" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFrHFHK1MQhMDFYRFhF-GjKLRv5jqUUOVzWwHDOtWU_RHEDG9KsV5RIEVYPUxlbDVTUdaUk5nTWQCVmVo8906Ua2fVeSN-rtGkXlnqhkWaM3fyL-1uwuxY1hI8aqNC4mj_NNVpUWs__A/s320/scc1.jpg" /></a></div>Sarah, chasing the image of three dots, goes to a UFO convention where she hears about a blogger, Abraham, who has written of the three dots. She is approached by Eileen who says that she knows about Abraham. Her trailer contains maps of sighting of Abraham and of UFOs. At a restaurant, Sarah follows Eileen into the ladies room and demands that she must meet Abraham. Eileen takes off her wig and confesses that she is Abraham. Her real name is Alan Park, and as an MIT graduate was employed on a secret project with an unknown metal. Park fearing for his life went into hiding and disguised as a woman so as not to be recognized. Park never knew where he worked for he taken there each day in a closed van. Sarah takes Park to a regression therapist to go over memories of noises etc. She records the session, and although an assassin kills both Park and the therapist, Sarah is able to deduce the location of the plant.<br />
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<h2>Who are they?</h2>This is the only episode of SCC directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá. He has directed episodes for a lot of television serials.<br />
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Natalie Chaidez wrote 30 SCC episodes.<br />
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Dinah Lenney is in only this episode of SCC but is a regular as Nurse Shirley in <i>ER</i>, and has played small parts in many television series, almost all female parts.<br />
<h2>Conclusion</h2>A cross-dressing drama for the cis-gendered. Passing in gender role creates problems of its own, extra problems that a person hiding from bad guys does not need. How did Eileen rent a car without a drivers license in her female name? The script avoids these problems.<br />
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<ul><li>Antonio Cuomo. “The Sarah Connor Chronicles - St. 2, ep. 13: Earthlings Welcome Here: Recensione dell'episodio Abraham”. <i>Movieplayer.it</i>. <a href="http://www.movieplayer.it/articoli/05229/the-sarah-connor-chronicles-st-2-ep-13-earthlings-welcome-here/" linkindex="22">www.movieplayer.it/articoli/05229/the-sarah-connor-chronicles-st-2-ep-13-earthlings-welcome-here/</a></li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-73515889008419439862010-02-27T22:34:00.002-05:002010-03-06T10:41:38.761-05:00Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20This, probably the best known of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, is central to discussions of homosexuality in Shakespeare. It is possibly addressed to a cross-dressed young man, or at least a young man with androgynous beauty.<br />
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<blockquote>'A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, <br />
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; <br />
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted <br />
With shifting change, as is false woman's fashion; <br />
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, <br />
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; <br />
A man in hew all Hews in his controlling, <br />
Which steals men's eyes, and women's souls amazeth. <br />
And for a woman wert thou first created; <br />
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, <br />
And by addition me of thee defeated, <br />
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. <br />
But since she prickt thee out for women's pleasure, <br />
Mine be thy love, and thy love's use their treasure.' </blockquote>Proposed identifications of the young ‘master-mistress’ include Willie Hughes and <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/03/henry-wriothesley-1573-1624-aristocrat.html" linkindex="18">Henry Wriothesley</a>, to both of whom we will return.<br />
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<ul><li>“Sonnet 20”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_20" linkindex="19">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_20</a></li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-38375551040552667862010-02-23T12:11:00.002-05:002010-02-23T12:13:19.292-05:00Wanda Koolmatrie (1949 - ) writer.Koolmatrie, an aboriginal Australian, was born to the Pitjantjatjara people but taken from her mother in 1950 and raised by white foster parents. She finally expressed herself in an aboriginal acting troop<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="" name="_Toc175471383"></a><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="" name="_Toc175470717"></a><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="" name="_Toc175470051"></a><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="" name="_Toc175469385">. Her 1994 autobiography, <i>My Own Sweet Time</i>, won the $5,000 Dobbie award for women’s life writing</a>.<br />
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When she proposed a sequel to the book in 1997, the publisher insisted on meeting her, and it came out that she is the female persona of Leon Carmen (1950 - ) and John Bayley, two white men with a grudge that white men cannot get published. Carmen admitted that he had not ever met an aboriginal woman.<br />
<ul><li>Wanda Koolmatrie. My Own Sweet Time<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=agevawhswh-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1412033780&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>. Broome WA: Magabala Books 1994.</li>
<li>John Bayley. <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/Daylight-Corroboree-first-hand-account-Koolmatrie/dp/0958546649?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Daylight Corroboree</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0958546649" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />: a first-hand account of the Wanda Koolmatrie hoax</i>. Eidolon Press 2004.</li>
<li>“Wanda Koolmatrie”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Koolmatrie">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Koolmatrie</a>. </li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-4083555370697831252010-02-10T13:08:00.002-05:002010-06-06T13:39:43.994-04:00Hot PeachesHere is a video retrospective of the Hot Peaches.<br />
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Many persons of interest passed through Hot Peaches, including <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/05/marsha-p-johnson-1944-1992-activist.html">Marsha P Johnson</a>, <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/03/bette-bourne-194-performer.html">Bette Bourne</a>, International Chrysis, Hapi Phace and so on.<br />
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<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iRki62GXEdY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iRki62GXEdY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-17753345969198774392010-02-07T16:17:00.007-05:002010-02-09T09:36:49.934-05:00Fellini’s La dolce vitaDirected by Federico Fellini.<br />
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Script by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi & Pier Paolo Pasolini (uncredited) <br />
174 minutes 1960<br />
<blockquote>Marcello Mastroianni plays Marcello Rubini<br />
Anita Ekberg plays Sylvia<br />
Anouk Aimee plays Maddalena<br />
Alain Cuny plays Steiner<br />
Annibale Nichi plays Marcello’s father<br />
Walter Santesso plays Paparazzo<br />
Nico plays herself<br />
Dominot and Carlo Musto play transvestites</blockquote>Country of finance: Italy/France<br />
Nationality of director: Italy<br />
Location of story: Rome <br />
Filming location: Rome & Cinecittà<br />
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<h1>Synopsis</h1>Marcello is a hack journalist chasing celebrities, religious stories and the local aristocracy. He encounters Steiner, an established writer with a loving wife and children, and an attractive apartment, all that Marcello aspires to. Later Steiner kills his children and commits suicide. <br />
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<h1>Who are they?</h1>Marcello Mastroianni (1924 – 1996) acted in 143 films. La Dolce Vita made him famous. He was married to Flora Carabella from 1948 until his death. He famously had an affair and a daughter with Catherine Deneuve. He died of pancreatic cancer. It is also rumoured that he was the young boyfriend of Giovanni Montini (1867 – 1978) whose stage name was Pope Paul VI.<br />
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<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico" target="_blank">Nico</a> (Christa Päffgen 1938 – 1988), related to the Päffgen brewery in Cologne, went on to appear in the Morrisey-Warhol film <i>Chelsea Girls</i> and to sing with The Velvet Underground. She died aged 40 after a minor heart attack while cycling.<br />
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<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/02/dominot-1930-performer.html">Dominot </a>continued as a female impersonator and performer and has his own club in Rome.<br />
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Carlo Musto is otherwise unknown.<br />
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Steiner was based on the novelist <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese" target="_blank">Cesare Pavese</a>(1908 – 1950) an anti-fascist and award-winning novelist who committed suicide. Co-screenwriter Tullio Pinelli had gone to school with Pavese and felt that he had become burnt out.<br />
<h1>Religious aspects</h1>The film divides into seven episodes, which reflects the seven hills of Rome, the seven sins, seven sacraments, seven days of creation etc. See the Wikipedia article for details.<br />
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The film opens with a <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.globalchristians.org/articles/parousia.htm">parousia</a>, an arrival of Jesus as a statue carried by a helicopter. It ends with a parousia of the sea monster that can still look at you after being dead for three days (the fish symbolism of Jesus is hinted at here). Both the opening and the ending have a non-communication because of distance or of noise. Thus like Mark’s gospel the end reflects the beginning. Click <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.well.com/%7Edavidu/veil.html" target="_blank">here</a> for an essay by David Ulansey comparing the beginning and end of Mark’s gospel.<br />
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The centre of Mark’s gospel is the transfiguration where Jesus goes up a mountain to gain an epiphany. At the centre of La Dolce Vita Marcello goes up to Steiner’s apartment and finds that what he believed in does not exist. Steiner says: "Sometimes at night the darkness and silence frightens me. Peace frightens me. I feel it's only a facade, hiding the face of hell".<br />
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The Vatican newspaper, <i>L’Osservatore Romano</i> condemned the film as a parody of Jesus’ second coming. The film was banned in Catholic Spain until 1981 after the death of Franco. The Vatican also disliked the film for its portrayal of Rome’s aristocracy which of course is very dynastically intertwined with the Church hierarchy.<br />
<h1>The trans bits</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfvD3sPJS5zfZ4kx9khijWWGgNczqfRYi8vcbRtyEg60blQdCuv5sI6riKfAJO7rdy2bzeCGRDU700V3hMII3yKIMAlPv4IwG8b7Td56zbqQoMOYrcUHHpHof_sLiL3Nj32K6lHVO7As/s1600-h/DolceVita3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfvD3sPJS5zfZ4kx9khijWWGgNczqfRYi8vcbRtyEg60blQdCuv5sI6riKfAJO7rdy2bzeCGRDU700V3hMII3yKIMAlPv4IwG8b7Td56zbqQoMOYrcUHHpHof_sLiL3Nj32K6lHVO7As/s320/DolceVita3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The famous sequence of bathing in the fountain was suggested by <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/06/maria-gioacchina-stajano-starace-1932.html" target="_blank">Giò Stajano</a> (who became Maria in 1983) who had himself done the fountain thing, and had written novels about the café society scene in Rome, of which La Dolce Vita can be seen as a sequel. His novels, of course, have a lot more gay characters.<br />
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When Marcello’s father visits and they go to a nightclub, he tells of his visit to Paris where he saw a stripper who revealed herself to be a man. Probably he had been to Le Carousel, but it is not named.<br />
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In the last party scene, optimistically called an ‘orgy’ in some accounts, there are suddenly two young men who change upstairs, come down in drag and do a dance routine. The others refer to them with male pronouns. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053779/fullcredits#cast" target="_blank">IMDB</a> lists three transvestites: Domino, Carlo Musto and Antonio Jacono (uncredited). Close watching of the film fails to reveal a third transvestic character, but the mystery is resolved when one discovers that Domino’s birth name was Antonio Iacono.<br />
<h1>Sexual politics</h1><i>La Dolce Vita</i> was made between two great scandals. The heterosexual <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200309/ai_n9256185/" target="_blank">Montesi Affair</a> of 1953 began with a dead young woman washed up on a beach near Ostia (a second hint from the sea monster at the end of the film) and expanded into police and political cover-ups and tales of drugs and orgies. The gay <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balletti_verdi" target="_blank">Ballete Verdi</a> scandal, 1960 came right after <i>La Dolce Vita</i> opened, and unlike the Montesi Affair included no murder, but like it expanded to include celebrities.<br />
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<ul><li>“La Dolce Vita”. <i>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</i>. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dolce_Vita">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dolce_Vita</a></li>
<li>Philip French. “Italian cinema’s sweet success”. <i>The Observer</i>. 17 Feb 2008. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/feb/17/features.worldcinema">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/feb/17/features.worldcinema</a>.</li>
<li>Darwin porter & Danforth Prince. <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Babylon-Its-Back-Darwin-Porter/dp/0974811882?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back!.</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0974811882" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> Blood Moon Productions, Ltd. 2008: 161.</li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-8484621414773706622010-01-24T07:13:00.001-05:002010-01-24T07:13:00.391-05:00Barbarian Venus by Paul KleePaul Klee (1879 –1940) painted this in 1921.<br />
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Lanier Graham says: <br />
<blockquote><i>Barbarian's Venus</i> by Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most "barbaric" Androgyne images of the era. She is a Venus with a penis. Klee was not a member of the Surrealist circle, but sometimes exhibited with them. He was associated with Kandinsky and Marc in Munich in 1911 and 1912, then took from Cubism and Orphism the concept of fluctuating planes. Klee was thought by some to be an Alchemist when he discussed the Absolute, Nothingness, and the Ground of Being. His students at the Bauhaus (only half in jest) called him "Heavenly Father." He was one of the first modern artists to explore Androgyny in tribal art. <br />
</blockquote>The painting is owned by <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.nortonsimon.org/" target="_blank">The Norton Simon Museum</a> in Pasadena, California, but is not currently on view. They describe the painting: <br />
<blockquote>This androgynous Venus, with her direct gaze confronting and challenging the viewer, displays both female and male organs, thereby engaging us by flaunting her dual and "barbaric" sexuality.<br />
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<ul><li>Lanier Graham. “Duchamp & Androgyny: The Concept and its Context”. Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal. January 2002. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_4/articles/graham/graham5.html" title="http://www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_4/articles/graham/graham5.html">www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_4/articles/graham/graham5.html</a> </li>
<li><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=P.1953.062" title="http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=P.1953.062">www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=P.1953.062</a></li>
</ul>Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739019190085095899.post-36785908711933731062010-01-22T22:45:00.004-05:002010-01-22T22:57:25.693-05:00Elémire Zolla’s The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2JIfhMOo4DRBiikdHBFd8fjnNARLaAgwGVeSomIVosCY_ePsnphMgeGg5qUjhKs6ghkp5yOwwUk0MT5ZAsemF9-A5Gr-0X3gS_EWYBYIx_LvUhjSrfs6Ti81QqLuXGqoTJ68do5ez4c/s1600-h/Elemire_Zolla.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2JIfhMOo4DRBiikdHBFd8fjnNARLaAgwGVeSomIVosCY_ePsnphMgeGg5qUjhKs6ghkp5yOwwUk0MT5ZAsemF9-A5Gr-0X3gS_EWYBYIx_LvUhjSrfs6Ti81QqLuXGqoTJ68do5ez4c/s1600/Elemire_Zolla.jpg" /></a>Elémire Zolla (1926 – 2002) was born in Turin to an Italian-French <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venanzio_Zolla" target="_blank">father</a> who was a painter and an English mother who was a musician. He was raised in Paris and London, but then settled in Italy.<br />
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In 1956 he won the <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strega_Prize" target="_blank">Strega Prize</a> for his first novel, <i>Minuetto all'inferno</i>. He married a poet, <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Luisa_Spaziani" target="_blank">Maria Spaziani</a>, 1958, but they were divorced in 1960. From 1966 to 1978 he was Secretary of the <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://istitutoaccademicodiroma.it/" target="_blank">Istituto Accademico di Roma</a> and from 1970 to 1973 Director of the <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_delle_Culture" target="_blank">Istituto Ticinesi di Alti Studi</a> in Lugano. In 1970 he wrote an introduction to the Italian version of Tolkein’s <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>. He was the long time director and editor of <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.elemirezolla.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=80&lang=en" target="_blank">Conoscenza Religiosa</a></i>, a leading Italian journal in religious studies. He taught Anglo-American and comparative literature at <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Sapienza" target="_blank">La Sapienza University</a> in Rome and at the University of Genoa.<br />
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<i>The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female</i>, which was published first in English and only later in Italian, is an intriguing book that covers many of the aspects of the Androgyne in myth, but also features some items that readers may be puzzled about, such as decapitation and plunging into water.<br />
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Zolla proposes two paradigms of androgyny: <br />
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a) Suitors are slighted or a goddess is offended or mating is hindered, the hidden meaning possibly being that an esoteric use is made of sex; <br />
b) A plunge is taken into transforming waters. Or contact is made with serpents. The currents of subtle inner energy may be alluded to in either case; <br />
c) There follows a succession of switches in sex; one's self-reflection pivots on its axis of symmetry. In Tantric sex the two opposite currents are usually stimulated in turn; <br />
d) The consequence is a loss of sight leading to the acquisition of spiritual or prophetic insight, or the granting of the gift of music, the mastery of rhythms. In the Narcissus myth the explicit discovery of the self-delusive quality of maya takes the place of the loss of sight. Tales such as Hermaphroditus, Teiresius and Narada fit into this paradigm, as does the Genesis tale of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, and the Buddhist tale where a chaste youth closes his ears to a woman's entreaties and she has him blinded out of spite.<br />
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(2) <br />
a) A cosmic cavern or tree or anthill; <br />
b) inside is concealed the androgyne, the Primal God, or the God who assumes the sex opposite to that of the worshipper; <br />
c) violence of love blinds, bisects or beheads the androgyne; <br />
d) The severed head or lost eyesight becomes a cause of trouble; a sacrifice has to be made; <br />
e) Balance is restored, the androgyne made whole once more, the land healed. <br />
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His other books are: <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/eclipse-intellectual-Elemire-Zolla/dp/B0006BTSL0?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Eclipse of the Intellectual</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0006BTSL0" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />,</i> 1968. <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/Writer-Shaman-Morphology-American-Indian/dp/0151995605?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The writer and the shaman</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0151995605" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><i>; a morphology of the American Indian</i>, 1973. <i><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/Archetypes-Persistence-Unifying-Patterns-Elemire/dp/0151078785?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Archetypes: The Persistence of Unifying Patterns</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0151078785" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>, 1981.<br />
<ul><li>Elémire Zolla.<b> </b><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.amazon.com/Androgyne-Reconciliation-Male-Female/dp/0824500601?ie=UTF8&tag=agevawhswh-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female</i>.</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=agevawhswh-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0824500601" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> The illustrated library of sacred imagination. New York: Crossroad, 1981. London: Thames and Hudson, 96 pp 130 illustrations 1981. <i>L'androgino: l'umana nostalgia dell'interezza</i>. Arte e immaginazione, 8. Como: red edizioni, 1989.</li>
<li>“Elémire Zolla”. <i>Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera</i>. <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%A9mire_Zolla">it.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%A9mire_Zolla</a>. </li>
<li><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.elemirezolla.org/">www.elemirezolla.org</a>. </li>
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The application of any of this to real-life trans persons is not at all obvious; nor if this is indeed androgyny, what should a person do who wishes to be androgynous. Nor do I perceive any system in Zolla’s archetypes of Androgyny. Surely by emphasizing different myths of androgyny, one could arrive at different archetypes. <br />
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Unlike <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" target="_blank">Joseph Campbell</a> or <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" target="_blank">Mircea Eliade</a>, Zolla’s approach is neither that of a scientist nor of a mythographer, but that of an artist. You relate to his presentation or you do not. But there is no dialectic or doxy that will accept or reject it.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.com0