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Film Art: An Introduction

by David Bordwell

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Jul 06, 2015 09:25PM

“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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“Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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“To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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“...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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“Although some lesbians argue that butches have nothing to do with “being a man,” others insist that their butchness is or was only a route to a desired status as a man. These paradoxes have surely proliferated in recent years,
offering evidence of a kind of gender trouble that the text itself did not
anticipate.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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