...The Nation, the Body, and Pasolini ...

... This chapter confronts us with a nearly unbearable thought: that politics as such, let alone leftist political activism and revolutionary transformation, is so thoroughly futile and farcical that a certain posture of acceptance is all that is left to us. Analyzing Pasolini’s film Salò...

... Pasolini the worst film cinema freedom and slavery Italian politics ...

... and farcical that a certain posture of acceptance is all that is left to us. Analyzing Pasolini’s film Salò alongside his essay “Repudiation,” the chapter tracks the bewildering intensity of the demand made, and the incendiary effect created, when we begin to think the unthinkable and accept the unacceptable...

... Frankenstein's monster, the evil twin is a common narrative trope, found everywhere from daytime soaps to Pasolini. As queer theory's evil twin, transgender studies brings trouble into the family. The author names three of the writers with whom she was in dialog as Judith Butler, Sandy Stone, and Leslie Feinberg...

... of queer theory, despite the fact that transgender issues have been an important part of queer activism and scholarship for decades. Like Frankenstein's monster, the evil twin is a common narrative trope, found everywhere from daytime soaps to Pasolini. As queer theory's evil twin, transgender studies...