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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,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies |
| Item ID: | 11875 |
| Identification Number: | 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 |
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| 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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