Michele Aaron
Biographic Data
| ID | 1644810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Aaron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Aaron |
| SIGNATURE | AARON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Love's Revival: Film Practice and the Art of Dying
Dying serves so often within the narratives of Western popular culture, as an exercise in self-improvement both to the individual dying and to those looking on. It enlightens, ennobles and renders exceptional all those affected by it. Though mainstream cinema's “grammar of dying” is mired in similar myths, film has the potential to do dying differently: it can, instead, connect us, ethically, to the vulnerability of others. The aim of this articl…
Passing Through: Queer Lesbian Film and Fremde Haut
Expanding the horizons of lesbian film, Fremde Haut is located within three broad frames: the cross-dressing genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC) movement, and an Accented or diasporic film aesthetic. While strong connections exist between the cross-dressing film and NQC, less addressed are the links between the New Queer and the Accented yet these are of more radical, that is queerer, potential. Through Fremde Haut, this article illustrates how int…
Towards queer television theory: Bigger pictures sans the sweet queer-after
The aim of this chapter is to scrutinise the relationship between ‘queer’ and ‘TV’, not just between sexual dissidence, say, and popular culture but, more importantly, between this specific critical position and this specific media experience. In doing so I will map the various avenues that queer television theory might, and in some cases has begun to, take. Though influenced by work within TV studies and on debates on sexual citizenship within s…
New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, 'New Queer Cinema' has turned the attention of film theorists, students and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema, and to the proliferation of 'queer' images and themes within the mainstream. But what constituted New Queer Cinema then and now? And was it political gains, cultural momentum or ma…
New Queer Cinema
The new queer spectator
The Queer Jew and Cinema: From Yidl to Yentl and Back and Beyond
This essay interrogates the various interactions of queerness and Jewishness through the crossdressing films Yidl Mitn Fidl (Joseph Green, 1936) and Yentl (Barbra Streisand, 1983). Through an application of the notion of the ‘Jew as Woman’, Yidl is found to be heavily invested in undoing the anti-semitic myth, in unqueering the ‘Jew’. Yentl, which is revealed as deeply rooted in the earlier Yiddish film, uses the myth for its own feminist and ero…
The historical, the hysterical and the homoeopathic
Towards queer television theory: Bigger pictures sans the sweet queer-after
The aim of this chapter is to scrutinise the relationship between ‘queer’ and ‘TV’, not just between sexual dissidence, say, and popular culture but, more importantly, between this specific critical position and this specific media experience. In doing so I will map the various avenues that queer television theory might, and in some cases has begun to, take. Though influenced by work within TV studies and on debates on sexual citizenship within s…
Passing Through: Queer Lesbian Film and Fremde Haut
Expanding the horizons of lesbian film, Fremde Haut is located within three broad frames: the cross-dressing genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC) movement, and an Accented or diasporic film aesthetic. While strong connections exist between the cross-dressing film and NQC, less addressed are the links between the New Queer and the Accented yet these are of more radical, that is queerer, potential. Through Fremde Haut, this article illustrates how int…
The historical, the hysterical and the homoeopathic
The Queer Jew and Cinema: From Yidl to Yentl and Back and Beyond
This essay interrogates the various interactions of queerness and Jewishness through the crossdressing films Yidl Mitn Fidl (Joseph Green, 1936) and Yentl (Barbra Streisand, 1983). Through an application of the notion of the ‘Jew as Woman’, Yidl is found to be heavily invested in undoing the anti-semitic myth, in unqueering the ‘Jew’. Yentl, which is revealed as deeply rooted in the earlier Yiddish film, uses the myth for its own feminist and ero…
New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, 'New Queer Cinema' has turned the attention of film theorists, students and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema, and to the proliferation of 'queer' images and themes within the mainstream. But what constituted New Queer Cinema then and now? And was it political gains, cultural momentum or ma…
New Queer Cinema
The new queer spectator
Towards queer television theory: Bigger pictures sans the sweet queer-after
The aim of this chapter is to scrutinise the relationship between ‘queer’ and ‘TV’, not just between sexual dissidence, say, and popular culture but, more importantly, between this specific critical position and this specific media experience. In doing so I will map the various avenues that queer television theory might, and in some cases has begun to, take. Though influenced by work within TV studies and on debates on sexual citizenship within s…
Passing Through: Queer Lesbian Film and Fremde Haut
Expanding the horizons of lesbian film, Fremde Haut is located within three broad frames: the cross-dressing genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC) movement, and an Accented or diasporic film aesthetic. While strong connections exist between the cross-dressing film and NQC, less addressed are the links between the New Queer and the Accented yet these are of more radical, that is queerer, potential. Through Fremde Haut, this article illustrates how int…
Love's Revival: Film Practice and the Art of Dying
Dying serves so often within the narratives of Western popular culture, as an exercise in self-improvement both to the individual dying and to those looking on. It enlightens, ennobles and renders exceptional all those affected by it. Though mainstream cinema's “grammar of dying” is mired in similar myths, film has the potential to do dying differently: it can, instead, connect us, ethically, to the vulnerability of others. The aim of this articl…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)