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Judith Halberstam: Queer Animation lecture
Judith Halberstam: Queer Animation (University of California, San Diego)
A public lecture presented by the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, The University of Auckland
The University of Auckland's
Department of Film, Television and Media Studies is pleased
to announce a public lecture by internationally renowned
queer theorist Judith Halberstam on August 7, 2008.
A
Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Feminist
Research at the University of California at San Diego,
Halberstam has carved a reputation for her ground-breaking
work on gender. Her first book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror
and the Technology of Monsters (1995), explored the impact
of gothic culture across film and media. Her second work,
Female Masculinity (1998), subverted conventional gender
paradigms by arguing that masculinity does not belong to
men. Halberstam's most recent book, In a Queer Time and
Place: Transgender bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), further
extends this exploration of gender by examining queer
subcultures and the increasing visibility of transgender
culture in the popular sphere.
Enigmatic, insightful
and frank, Halberstam is a well-known academic personality
in high demand on international speaking circuits. A
regular journalist for BITCH and The Nation, she is also a
participant in the drag king community, a topic that formed
the backbone for a photo essay work The Drag King Book,
co-authored by Del LaGrace Volcano.
In this lecture,
Halberstam once again challenges the mainstream conception
of gender by highlighting elements in children's Pixar
animation films that many of us overlook. Referring to films
such as Shrek, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. as examples of
what she terms the “Pixarvolt” genre, Halberstam
highlights the subtextual connections that these films make
between queer embodiment and communitarian revolt. What
emerges is a picture of children's animation films distinct
from many of its adult counterparts in its imaginative
possibilities for the construction of future inclusive
communities.
7 August, 6:30pm, Lecture Theatre B4,
Owen G. Glenn Building
12 Grafton Rd, University of Auckland
This seminar is presented as part of the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2008
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