... and editor for a small documentary film company. Xander Berkeley and Julianne Moore as Greg and Carol White in Safe. Courtesy Killer Films Dangerous Spaces: Safe Susan Potter For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content...

...Mary T. Conway Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996 Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire Mary T. Conway Allie: I'm a city girl. Dionne: You don't camp? Allie: Unhuh...

..., Transgression, and Impossible Mourning in Poison and Safe Laura Christian In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a pack of schoolyard bullies...

... shot of Safe (US/UK, 1995). A long tracking shot, sometimes marked as originating from inside a car, traces row after row of classic suburban houses—all basically the same with only slight differences, all overly familiar—in a seemingly endless movement reminiscent of Jean-Luc Godard’s lateral...

... — stands alone, onstage, killing me softly with his song. And I do not know if I should follow his winding yellow brick road or stay safely in Kansas. He is Lorne (Andy Hallett), empathetic demon extraor- dinaire. Situated within a hybrid narrative that combines genres (horror, comedy...

... and the profane reside, not in some “safe” monstrous other, but within the self. 130 • Camera Obscura Ultimately, this film insists that cinematic pleasure, predi- cated as it is on the mediation of the gaze, is always about partici- pating in monstrous acts of looking and is always about the threat...

... the persistent threat of homophobia and heteronormativity, which are sometimes aligned with class inequality and racism.8 Settings in queer cinema often function as safe zones and spaces of refuge for queer- identified characters (fig. 1). The settings often contrast with spaces of sexual repression, including...

... by side without any danger to gender and sexual normativity. Yet to read my Judy- tude as identification only is to tame it, rendering it and me safe for heterosexual gendering. In my case at least, loving Judy did not express my love of theater and theatricality but in some way produced it. Sure...

... Film Institute, 1999. Post Identity 1.2. U of Detroit Mercy, 1998. Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong by Cindy Patton. Duke UP, 1996. Robert Bresson edited by James Quandt. Indiana UP, 1999. Shohei Imamura edited by James Quandt. Indiana UP, 1999. Experimental Ethnography: The Work...

..., receptacle, recess, repository, safe, storeroom, vault, walk-in, wardrobe. ARCHIVE: cache, canon, catalog, chronicle, collection, depository, file, index, journal, memorial, record, register, repository, safe, storehouse, tomb, vault, warehouse, writing. A R C H I V E F O...

... known side-effects the pill is still being marketed.” The desirability of an effective and safe birth control pill is clear; yet it is a misconception to believe that should it choose, medicine could fur- ther refine the pill so it had only one effect (contraception) and no side-effects...

.... Conway, Mary T. Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe is Desire. No. 38; pp. 133-162. Curry, Ramona and Angharad Valdivia Xuxu at the Borders of Global TV: The Institutionalization and Margin- alization of Brazil's Blonde Ambition. No. 38; pp. 31-60. Del...

... imagery like The Real McCoys (ABC, 1957 – 62; CBS, 1962 – 63) and Griffith’s star text — distanced Mayberry from the news and made the South safe for televisual representations and for an imagined white audience understood to be easily alienated by controversial fare. Crucial...

... Nicole, who was older and was not infected. When the Burks appeared on the infamous 1985 Life magazine cover that proclaimed “NOW NO ONE IS SAFE FROM AIDS,” the implication was certainly that any family in America could be infected through “ordinary sexual intercourse...

... safely removed from the now-troublesome kitchen. Moreover, the masked mystery man turns out to be the main character’s real-life husband or future husband: “Oh! It’s you!” she exclaims when he reveals his identity. Although this statement locates her safely in a monogamous heterosexual rela...

... of angles. Later we see him suspended from chains attached to loops embedded in his skin, hovering over the bleached body of this victim as he is overcome by orgasm while watching this death replay on video. It is not intimacy with death that he seeks but rather the safely framed intimacy of speculation...

...- nists—the scientist and mother characters in Poison, Carol White in Safe (US/UK, 1995), Cathy Whitaker in Far from Heaven (US/ Traumatic Postmodern Histories • 179 France, 2002)—he positions the women in relation either to no desire (as in Safe) or to a masculinity...

... as “heterosexual” destabilizes as a category. We see lesbian interests in AIDS activism producing a new community with gay men, and lesbian interests in safe sex redefining lesbian sex practices and meanings. At the same time a backlash, or troubled sense of priorities, incites some...

... York University Press, 1998. Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading by Rey Chow. Indi- ana University Press, 1998. Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong by Cindy Patton. Duke University Press, 1996. Film...

.... Additionally, Ron Jeremy’s more 138 • Camera Obscura general narrative function as the repressive suturing thread among the tableaux of sexual variety, as well as his role as the incredulous spectator who remains at a safe remove from all the queer sex he watches with such avid interest, allows straight...