Wander Lust
Genre, Sexuality and Identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3022170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joe Hardwick (0000-0002-8135-1560, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v15i1.2052 |
| OpenAlex | W2019677016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
While the road movie has long held a privileged place in Australian cinema, less prevalent, though increasingly present, has been the street movie, which-like its road movie cousin-poses important questions about identity in tracing the trajectory of its wanderer protagonists. The most remarkable recent example of an Australian street movie is Ana Kokkinos's 1997 feature Head On. The film recounts a day in the life of a late adolescent Greek-Australian male who wanders the streets participating in sexual encounters with mainly, though not exclusively, other men. Whereas reviews and articles have generally read the film as a coming out narrative, this article-with reference to Ross Chambers' theories on digressive narratives in his book Loiterature-will argue that Head On rejects the simplistic teleology of the coming out story in favour of a much more complex understanding of adolescent male sexuality
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Literature · Lust · Movie theater · Narrative · Sociology · Teleology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |