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E-Artikel
Titel:
Radical Sissies and Stereotyped Fairies in Laurie Lynd's "The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore"
Beteiligte:
Padva, Gilad
Erschienen:
University of Texas Press, 2005
Erschienen in:Cinema Journal
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0009-7101;
1527-2087
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Beschreibung:
<p>Laurie Lynd's film "The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore" (1992) examines the cultural mechanisms of normalization and masculinization in contemporary heterocentrist society. This article compares Lynd's essentialist approach to sexual identification, camp subculture, and the economy of sissyness and body politics with Hans Christian Andersen's tragic story "The Little Mermaid" and with Tim Burton's romantic fantasy "Edward Scissorhands" (1990).</p>