Authority and Transgression in Literature and Film
Selected Papers from
the Eighteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on
Literature and Film
Edited by Bonnie Braendlin and Hans
Braendlin
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In this volume well-known scholars in the fields of literature
and film address the issues of authority and transgression as
sociocultural phenomena, discussing such topics as male and
female sexuality, socioeconomic formations, history and myth, the
relative power of fictionality, genre, canon formation, cinematic
conventions, and conventions of academic discourse.
Contents:
1. Authority and Transgression in Literature and Film, by
Bonnie Braendlin and Hans Braendlin
2. Who's Transgressing Now?: Some Comments on Gay and
Lesbian Literature, by Catharine R. Stimpson
3. Reception, Representation, and the O K Corral:Shifting
Images of Wyatt Earp, by William Luhr
4. Twin Cheeks, Twin Peeks, and Twin Freaks:
Porn's Transgressive Remake Humor, by Peter Lehman
5. Violet Trefusis's Letters as Literature and Other
Boundary Disputes: An Essay in Letter Form, by Kathrine
Varnes
6. Mirrors, Echoes, and Music; Narcissus and Nietzsche in
James Joyce's "A Painful Case" and "The
Dead," by Cynthia D. Wheatley-Lovoy
7. The Maltese Phallcon: The Oedipal Trajectory of
Classical Hollywood Cinema, by Frank P. Tomasulo
8. Entrepreneurs and "Family Values" in the
Postwar Film, by Jack Boozer, Jr.
9. The Apocalyptic Fantasy of Armando Ramírez: Crónica
de los Chorrocientos mil días del barrio de tepito,
by Mary Tyler
10. Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now:
Reflectors of a Precarious Social Knowledge, by Preston
Whaley
11. Working for the Company: Patriarchal Legislation of
the Maternal in Alien3, by
Mark G. Schemanske
12. Racial Theory and Propaganda in Triumph of the
Will, by Roy J. Schwartzman
13. The Japanese Feature-Length Film as Propaganda During
World War II, by Philip Reines
Bonnie Braendlin is associate
professor of English and Hans Braendlin is
retired from the Department of Modern Languages, both at Florida
State University. She is the editor of Cultural Power/Cultural
Literacy (UPF, 1991), and he is the editor of Ambiguities in
Literature and Film (UPF,1988).
1996. 168 pp. 6 X 9.
Notes, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1436-0
Paper, $24.95
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