Queer documentary : parodic premise and the subjectification of the insider outsider or how to do (queer) things with reflexive and performative strategies

• Main Author: Herrup, Amy E.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Queer documentary; Reflexive practices; Performative practices; Mocha Jean Herrup; POM; LESBIANFILM; A FEW GOOD DYKES; Queer discourse
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29822

This dissertation explores the reflexive and performative practices found in Mocha Jean Herrup's documentary work, POM, LESBIANFILM, and A FEW GOOD DYKES. By exploiting realism's failure to ever fully represent, reflexive and performative techniques enable a queer discourse. These techniques create 1) a parodic premise that calls attention to the disjunction between documentary's legitimizing conventions and queer as a viable subject, 2) a subjectification of the insider-outsider that troubles distinctions between the audience and the subject and the filmmaker and the subject, and 3) enables the embodied knowledge of queer subjectivity to emerge. === text