Ashley T Shelden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley T Shelden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley T |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelden |
| SIGNATURE | SHELDEN A T |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0642-9866 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Waters's Vulgarity
This article puts John Waters into conversation with Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan, shedding new light on the political significance of the abject in Waters's trash cinema. The argument focuses on Waters's uses of the abject in both his early “transgressive” films and his later “mainstream” films, taking issue with the critical tradition that associates the abject with a celebration of queerness. Instead, by reading Waters's 1994 film Serial M…
The Abject Genealogies of Kenneth Halliwell (and Joe Orton)
Staging a queer methodological provocation, this essay brings together Julia Kristeva's abject and Michel Foucault's genealogy, formulating the concept of "abject genealogy." By doing so, it argues for pursuing combinations-of ideas, individuals, language, and methodologies-that do not necessarily "fit" with each other. In order to make this theoretical argument, the essay dwells on the figure of Kenneth Halliwell, the boyfriend and eventual murd…
The Abject Genealogies of Kenneth Halliwell (and Joe Orton)
Staging a queer methodological provocation, this essay brings together Julia Kristeva's abject and Michel Foucault's genealogy, formulating the concept of "abject genealogy." By doing so, it argues for pursuing combinations-of ideas, individuals, language, and methodologies-that do not necessarily "fit" with each other. In order to make this theoretical argument, the essay dwells on the figure of Kenneth Halliwell, the boyfriend and eventual murd…
The Abject Genealogies of Kenneth Halliwell (and Joe Orton)
Staging a queer methodological provocation, this essay brings together Julia Kristeva's abject and Michel Foucault's genealogy, formulating the concept of "abject genealogy." By doing so, it argues for pursuing combinations-of ideas, individuals, language, and methodologies-that do not necessarily "fit" with each other. In order to make this theoretical argument, the essay dwells on the figure of Kenneth Halliwell, the boyfriend and eventual murd…
John Waters's Vulgarity
This article puts John Waters into conversation with Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan, shedding new light on the political significance of the abject in Waters's trash cinema. The argument focuses on Waters's uses of the abject in both his early “transgressive” films and his later “mainstream” films, taking issue with the critical tradition that associates the abject with a celebration of queerness. Instead, by reading Waters's 1994 film Serial M…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (1 works)