Judith Butler and Film

Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a filmmaker and visual media scholar, serving as an adjunct lecturer at several institutions in Ireland, including University College Dublin, the Institute of Art, Design + Technology, and Technological University Dublin. Their work on feminist film theory, global media, subcultures, and experimental cinema has been published in journals such as Jump Cut, Cultural Studies, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, among others. This monograph was produced during their Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award for creative development.

• IntroductionCinema as Hegemonic MediaMedia as Cultural TranslationThe Bond Between Media and SurvivalTheoretical RoutesGlossaryChapter One: Cinematic Imaginary in Gender TroubleTextual Performativity: Kinship Between Two Trouble-MakingsReferentiality in Female Trouble“Truly” Troubling (Punk) AestheticsChapter Two: Embracing Negativity in Bodies That MatterThe Hegemonic Imaginary and Star PersonaeKinship Relations and Hyperbolic StagingJennie Livingston’s Camera as the Lesbian PhallusChapter Three: Survival Through Detachment in Undoing GenderIntroduction: Relating Violent ActsDetachment from the Tragic“Longing for Recognition” as a Route to DestructionDisciplines of Undoing GenderChapter Four: Butler in FramesCan Egalitarianism Become Canonized?Postscript: “Ugly” Others and etc.BibliographyFilmography

A meticulous, generous and detailed assessment of Butler’s writing on film, which is ultimately something else as well: a profoundly political call for the exposure, re-evaluation and reworking of the conditions under which not only films, but their academic critical assessment, are made.