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- Title
Performative Transformation of the Public Queer in Paris is Burning.
- Authors
Gregory, Christian A.
- Abstract
The article provides insights on the documentary film "Paris Is Burning," by Jenny Livingston. It discusses among academic cultural critics of racial, sexual, and class identities of the film's performers in terms of theories of the performative. It argues that the category and the discourse of "queer performativity" belong to a set of discursive histories that go back to Barthes, Austin, Searle, and Habermas, and to institutional histories that traverse the discourses in the relations among civil society, capital, and the state.
- Subjects
DOCUMENTARY films; PARIS Is Burning (Film); LIVINGSTON, Jennie; FILM critics; RACISM; CLASS identity; LECTURES &; lecturing; PERFORMATIVE (Philosophy); CIVIL society
- Publication
Film Criticism, 1998, Vol 23, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0163-5069
- Publication type
Article