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Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag
- Author(s):
- Nicole Seymour (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- MS Screen Arts and Culture, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Sexuality Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Ecocriticism, Humanities, Ecology, Mass media--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- animal studies, drag, ecocriticism, queer theory, transgender studies, Cultural studies, Environmental Humanities, Film studies, Media studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6VS3Z
- Abstract:
- This article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour argues that these performances—which include, for example, a human inserting a fishhook in his face before being thrown into shark-infested waters—constitute an extension of this media corpus's general investment in affective interconnectivity. As Seymour shows, such performances ask us to feel along with the performers, which includes feeling along with them as animals. Paying attention to the comic as well as the tragic resonances of animal drag, the article outlines the ethical role that nonserious affective modes can play in probing the trans-, or intersectional and interdependent, nature of human and nonhuman life.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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