Amy Villarejo
Biographic Data
| ID | 759595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Villarejo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Villarejo |
| SIGNATURE | VILLAREJO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remembering Lesbians
In August 2023, FQ Board member Amy Villarejo sat down with Phyllis Nagy, Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of the lesbian hit Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015), to talk about her newest project: a limited-series biopic of the writer Patricia Highsmith, whom Nagy knew from her early adulthood until Highsmith’s death in 1995. Their conversation asks what was at stake in the name “lesbian” now and then
Adorno by the Pool; Or, Television Then and Now
What can critical theory, from Theodor Adorno to contemporary writers on the relationship between capitalism and digital media, tell us about the specific form or medium that is television? This article undertakes a two-step answer to this question, first by locating television as a key medium in the midcentury analysis of the "culture industries" and then by seeking to frame it as a theoretical object capable of shedding light on contemporary cu…
Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire
Latitudes: New Indian Transnational Cinema
This article examines films and video art that speak to conditions of exile and displacement, including the work of Mona Hatoum, Sonali Gulati, and Onir. It proposes the term "latitude" to interrogate the aesthetic and formal properties of these artworks, seeking to understand how lesbian and same-sex eroticism and identities are central to their efficacy
Beyond Textuality
Review of Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme Turner (eds), Locating Television: Zones of Consumption
Queerness, Norms, Utopia
Extending the recent rapprochement among queer studies, Marxist theory, and political economy, this special issue of GLQ responds to the current crisis of capitalism. Contributors consider how methodologies of queer studies are specially poised to reveal the global, historical, and social dimensions of capitalist economic relations. Using queer hermeneutical tools in combination with globalization studies, secularization studies, and queer of col…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Creature From the Queer Lagoon
Book Review| April 01 2006 THE CREATURE FROM THE QUEER LAGOON New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader Edited by Michele Aaron New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xiii + 204 pp. Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 338–340. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-338 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; THE CREATURE FROM…
London Calling
Essay| June 01 2005 London Calling Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference London, England March 31-April 3, 2005 Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo is an associate professor at Cornell University, where she teaches film and is Director of the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies program. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2005) 32 (6): 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2005.32.6.…
Pink and Purple
Book Review| January 01 2005 PINK AND PURPLE Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip Val Holley Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. xv + 188 pp. Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 165–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-165 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Tarrying with the Normative
Research Article| December 01 2005 Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-3-4_84-85-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY. Social Text 1 December 200…
Activist Technologies
Research Article| September 01 2004 Activist Technologies: Think Again Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; Activist Technologies: Think Again. Social Text 1 September 2004; 22 (3 (80)): 133–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
1. Lesbian Rule -- 2. Droits de Regards/Right of Inspection: For Agnes and Inez Albright -- 3. Archiving the Diaspora: A Lesbian Impression -- 4. Absolut Queer: Cuba and its Spectators -- 5. Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History -- Conclusion: Straight to Video
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Archiving the Diaspora: "A Lesbian Impression of/in Ulrike Ottinger's "Exile Shanghai
M -, I think this is excellent, although long and slow as you said. Interviews go on and on often repeating same information and many Shanghai shots seem pointless. Still, it is an important and fascinating chapter in diaspora history. So yes [there is a box drawn around yes], show it. No [there is a box drawn around no], not as part of the main series. 4 hours of video day (?) also not certain that's 1/3 of the day! We should talk about how to u…
Queer Film and Performance: In Theory
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 7, Number 2, 2001
A Complex Legacy
Right Signal
Review| April 01 1999 Right Signal Media, Culture, and the Religious Right, edited by Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 380 pp./$19.95 (sb) Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo is Assistant Professor of film and Women’s Studies at Cornell. She is author of Queen Christina (1995) and Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Search for other …
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Queerness, Norms, Utopia
Extending the recent rapprochement among queer studies, Marxist theory, and political economy, this special issue of GLQ responds to the current crisis of capitalism. Contributors consider how methodologies of queer studies are specially poised to reveal the global, historical, and social dimensions of capitalist economic relations. Using queer hermeneutical tools in combination with globalization studies, secularization studies, and queer of col…
Tarrying with the Normative
Research Article| December 01 2005 Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-3-4_84-85-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY. Social Text 1 December 200…
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Queer Film and Performance: In Theory
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 7, Number 2, 2001
A Complex Legacy
Right Signal
Review| April 01 1999 Right Signal Media, Culture, and the Religious Right, edited by Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 380 pp./$19.95 (sb) Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo is Assistant Professor of film and Women’s Studies at Cornell. She is author of Queen Christina (1995) and Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Search for other …
Queer Film and Performance: In Theory
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 7, Number 2, 2001
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Archiving the Diaspora: "A Lesbian Impression of/in Ulrike Ottinger's "Exile Shanghai
M -, I think this is excellent, although long and slow as you said. Interviews go on and on often repeating same information and many Shanghai shots seem pointless. Still, it is an important and fascinating chapter in diaspora history. So yes [there is a box drawn around yes], show it. No [there is a box drawn around no], not as part of the main series. 4 hours of video day (?) also not certain that's 1/3 of the day! We should talk about how to u…
Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
1. Lesbian Rule -- 2. Droits de Regards/Right of Inspection: For Agnes and Inez Albright -- 3. Archiving the Diaspora: A Lesbian Impression -- 4. Absolut Queer: Cuba and its Spectators -- 5. Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History -- Conclusion: Straight to Video
Activist Technologies
Research Article| September 01 2004 Activist Technologies: Think Again Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; Activist Technologies: Think Again. Social Text 1 September 2004; 22 (3 (80)): 133–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
London Calling
Essay| June 01 2005 London Calling Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference London, England March 31-April 3, 2005 Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo is an associate professor at Cornell University, where she teaches film and is Director of the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies program. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2005) 32 (6): 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2005.32.6.…
Pink and Purple
Book Review| January 01 2005 PINK AND PURPLE Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip Val Holley Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. xv + 188 pp. Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 165–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-165 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Tarrying with the Normative
Research Article| December 01 2005 Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-3-4_84-85-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY. Social Text 1 December 200…
The Creature From the Queer Lagoon
Book Review| April 01 2006 THE CREATURE FROM THE QUEER LAGOON New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader Edited by Michele Aaron New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xiii + 204 pp. Amy Villarejo Amy Villarejo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 338–340. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-338 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Villarejo; THE CREATURE FROM…
Queerness, Norms, Utopia
Extending the recent rapprochement among queer studies, Marxist theory, and political economy, this special issue of GLQ responds to the current crisis of capitalism. Contributors consider how methodologies of queer studies are specially poised to reveal the global, historical, and social dimensions of capitalist economic relations. Using queer hermeneutical tools in combination with globalization studies, secularization studies, and queer of col…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire
Latitudes: New Indian Transnational Cinema
This article examines films and video art that speak to conditions of exile and displacement, including the work of Mona Hatoum, Sonali Gulati, and Onir. It proposes the term "latitude" to interrogate the aesthetic and formal properties of these artworks, seeking to understand how lesbian and same-sex eroticism and identities are central to their efficacy
Beyond Textuality
Review of Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme Turner (eds), Locating Television: Zones of Consumption
Adorno by the Pool; Or, Television Then and Now
What can critical theory, from Theodor Adorno to contemporary writers on the relationship between capitalism and digital media, tell us about the specific form or medium that is television? This article undertakes a two-step answer to this question, first by locating television as a key medium in the midcentury analysis of the "culture industries" and then by seeking to frame it as a theoretical object capable of shedding light on contemporary cu…
Remembering Lesbians
In August 2023, FQ Board member Amy Villarejo sat down with Phyllis Nagy, Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of the lesbian hit Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015), to talk about her newest project: a limited-series biopic of the writer Patricia Highsmith, whom Nagy knew from her early adulthood until Highsmith’s death in 1995. Their conversation asks what was at stake in the name “lesbian” now and then
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