Pramaggiore, Maria (2001) Bi Film-Video World High and Low. Journal of Bisexuality, 2 (2-3). pp. 243-266. ISSN 1529-9716

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Abstract

This essay examines two recent U.S. films that explicitly connect art and women’s bisexuality: Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy (1997) and Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art (1998). The affiliation between bisexuality and art reflects a paradox: an erotics of refusing distinctions, bisexuality acts as a metaphor for both the breakdown of sexual categories and the blending of high art and low entertainment. Yet bisexuals are subjects presumed to know; experimental, and, therefore, experienced, they are better equipped to make distinctions. In these films, one important aesthetic and sexual distinction revolves around the notion of the “real.”

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Bi Film-Video World; High and Low;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	11875
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1300/J159v02n02_17
Depositing User:	Maria Pramaggiore
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2019 16:00
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Bisexuality
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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