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Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, I take up Shine Louise Houston’s feature length film, The Wild Search, as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice.
Keywords: aspect seeing; feminism; Houston, Shine Louise - The wild search; identity politics; multistable figures; multistability; pornographic films; feminist pornography; queer activism
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Identity Politics Redux
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K. Heintzman
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Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, I take up Shine Louise Houston’s feature length film, The Wild Search, as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2014
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aspect seeing
feminism
Houston, Shine Louise - The wild search
identity politics
multistable figures
multistability
pornographic films
feminist pornography
queer activism
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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K. Heintzman, ‘Identity Politics Redux’, in Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 141–61 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_07>
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en-GB
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141
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161
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Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 141–61
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Cite as:
K. Heintzman, ‘Identity Politics Redux’, in Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 141–61 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_07>