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What is Sex in the Event of Happiness about?

This chapter's original title was " Happiness, 1972-1998," and its ambition was to reexamine the negative effects of separating sexual from structural revolutionary politics, an engagement whose promise is continuing to be abandoned. It derived from a pun about "your happiness and my ha-penis" from Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972) and stretched to the film Happiness (Solondz, 1998). It took Tango as a period piece, a restaging of its po liti cal moment's insistence on pursuing desire's drive toward the co-destruction of bourgeois economies, nationalism, colonialism, the patriarchal family form, and practices of straight heterosex. It looked at the double logic of revolutionary thought that the film puts forth: where a pop culture consumer style of antinormative love-play competes with an anticapitalist, antitraditional imaginary; where the inventions of intimate lifeworlds contest the

Author

Lauren Gail Berlant

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781478023050

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Sociology