Jackie Wykes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jackie Wykes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jackie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wykes |
| SIGNATURE | WYKES J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queering fat embodiment
I saw a knock-out’: Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal
When the Farrelly brothers' movie Shallow Hal (2001) was released, one reviewer suggested that the film ‘might have been more honest if [it] had simply made Hal have a thing about fat women’ ( Kerr 2002 : 44). In this paper, I argue that Kerr hits the mark but misses the point. While the film's treatment of fat is undoubtedly problematic, I propose a ‘queer’ reading of the film, borrowing the idea of ‘double coding’ to show a text about desire fo…
True Stories
I saw a knock-out’: Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal
When the Farrelly brothers' movie Shallow Hal (2001) was released, one reviewer suggested that the film ‘might have been more honest if [it] had simply made Hal have a thing about fat women’ ( Kerr 2002 : 44). In this paper, I argue that Kerr hits the mark but misses the point. While the film's treatment of fat is undoubtedly problematic, I propose a ‘queer’ reading of the film, borrowing the idea of ‘double coding’ to show a text about desire fo…
True Stories
I saw a knock-out’: Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal
When the Farrelly brothers' movie Shallow Hal (2001) was released, one reviewer suggested that the film ‘might have been more honest if [it] had simply made Hal have a thing about fat women’ ( Kerr 2002 : 44). In this paper, I argue that Kerr hits the mark but misses the point. While the film's treatment of fat is undoubtedly problematic, I propose a ‘queer’ reading of the film, borrowing the idea of ‘double coding’ to show a text about desire fo…
Queering fat embodiment
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Artificiality (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Corps humain (1 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works)