Throughout this essay I am going to be looking at the term ‘queer’ in relation to film. I will also be looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the term in relation to the films Free Fall (2013), directed by Stephan Lacant and Boys Don’t Cry (1999), directed by Kimberly Peirce. I will be drawing on academic debates, I will also look into the term ‘queer’ in detail and draw in other films throughout the years. To first understand Queer Theory, it is crucial that the definition is known. There are
Everyone yearns to impart their thoughts to the world, but the author Zadie Smith, in the essay, Speaking in Tongues demonstrates that this task is not easily undertaken. The narrator is evidently conflicted with herself after she recollects her vacuous decision to part ways with her voices. The accents that she acquired from her Jamaican mother and British father distinguished her amongs the other people in Cambridge. Still, Zadie Smith concluded that in order to fit in with the lettered people
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin