Plants as Trans Ecologies
Artifice and Deformation in Bertrand Mandico’s The Wild Boys (2017)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16964641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Audrey Miller (0000-0003-2048-6856, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/culture-2024-0017 |
| OpenAlex | W4400926877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay explores how artifice and queer form in Bertrand Mandico’s film The Wild Boys (2017. Dir. Bertrand Mandico . Ecce Films) interrogate more-than-human entanglements to orient viewers toward a trans ecology. In Mandico’s botanical imaginary, he crafts a world of excessive artifice where both the characters and the land in which they inhabit are entirely mutable. By creating a polymorphously perverse world where there is no such thing as a hermetically sealed body, Mandico uses plants to explore the possibilities of transness and how it may provide a focus for epistemological positions, knowledge, and orientations toward a post-anthropocentric future
Biology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Horticulture
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |