Women are Trouble, Did you know that Fergus
Neil Jordan's the Crying Game
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4780900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Edge (0000-0003-2952-656X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-186 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.1995.29 |
| OpenAlex | W2313820226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
The subject of this article is Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game. Released in 1992, it was widely received as a film that challenged stereotypes in relation to both the IRA and questions of race, sexuality and desire. This article calls into question such a radical reading by analysing the way in which Jude the IRA woman is represented. Through a feminist deconstruction, the article proposes that the character of Jude can be seen to represent both national and international anxieties concerning contemporary masculine and feminine subject positions. The article plots this by investigating how the film deals with the specifics of gender and Irish nationalism. It then moves on to consider how these specifics can be seen to articulate international postmodern concerns about contemporary gender identities
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Crying · Deconstruction (building) · Feminism · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Relation (database) · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |