Can I read Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan on EtoBox?
Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan by Nick Davis is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan about?
Raise your hand if you have ever referred to I'm Not There as "the movie where Cate Blanchett plays Bob Dylan." Blanchett's image, defamiliarized by thick shades and a black tumbleweed of hair, has been the film's domi nant emblem since its debut in 2007. She earned the Venice Film Festival's Best Actress prize and a Golden Globe for her work as Jude Quinn, the mid1960s Dylan surrogate who electrifies his sound, alienates folk music congregants, and absconds on a pill popping, conflict ridden sojourn to the UK. Despite I'm Not There's bravura reviews, Blanchett reaped its sole Oscar nomination, serving as the film's ambassador on red carpets and media junkets throughout awards season.When I shared with fellow cinephiles or gender scholars my plan to write a feminist essay about I'm Not There, they all assumed Blanchett's Jude would again take center stage, as something like "a vision of feminist, polysexual queering" (Darby 2013, 334). After all, when Judith Butler theo rized gender as a citational practice-a premise of much queer theory that followed, which Blanchett's per for mance readily recalls-she did so as a feminist intervention. From its opening pages, Gender Trou ble (199
- Author
- Nick Davis
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478018001
- Subjects
- Science, History, Sports