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From: David Austin <[email protected]> Given the recent threads on possible new directions in porn, nuns in porn, recurring interest in _Ribald Tales of Canterbury_, ... this book might be of interest to some:
_Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture_ by
Richard Burt. Table of Contents: Preface: My Own Private ShaXXXspeares Introduction: Dumb and Dumber Shakespeares: Academic Fantasy, the Electronic Archive, Loser Criticism, and Other Diminished Critical Capacities -- Ch. 1. The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare's Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema Ch. 2. Deep Inside William Shakespeare: Pornographic Film and Video "Classics" and the Castrated Gaze Ch. 3. Terminating Shakespeare with Extreme Prejudice: Postcolonial Cultural Cannibalism, Serial Quotation, and the Cinematic Spectacle of 1990s American Cultural Imperialism Ch. 4. When Our Lips Synch Together: The Transvestite Voice, the Virtuoso, Speed, and Pumped-Up Volume in Some Over-heard Shakespeares Ch. 5. My So-Called Shakespeare: Mourning the Canon in the Age of Postpatriarchal Multiculturalism, or the Shakespeare Pedagogue as Loser Conclusion: Spectres of ShaXXXspeare: Loser Criticism, Part Duh. Burt's web site, which includes a photo section, "Porn Stars I Have Known," is at: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~burt/
David.
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