An Intertextual Seam Beyond the Norm: Subversion of the Reality-Fiction Dichotomy and Alternative Time-Space Possibilities in Velvet Goldmine
This study examines how Todd Haynes’sVelvet Goldmine(1998) allows for a re-reading of the history of AIDS and homosexuality by excluding bodies, temporalities, and spatialities from being assigned to any fixed identity. This study focuses on the relationship between fictional reality and the film’s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Filmvisio |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/8556DCB2587A4636A6B7343528AEC404 |
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| Summary: | This study examines how Todd Haynes’sVelvet Goldmine(1998) allows for a re-reading of the history of AIDS and homosexuality by excluding bodies, temporalities, and spatialities from being assigned to any fixed identity. This study focuses on the relationship between fictional reality and the film’s intertextual links with the historical period from Oscar Wilde’s birth in 1854 to the present day. The intertextual links between some pioneering figures from the real-life 1970s glam-rock music scene and some fictional characters from the prominent subcultural queer literary and film history are also included in the study.Velvet Goldmineachieves inevitable transitions between real-life characters andother fictional characters by undermining the stabilised categories and the constructed monolithic identities imposed on bodies, temporalities and spatialities, thereby making the monolithic identities and categories impossible to maintain their stances. In this respect, the study argues that the film makes space for new alternative narratives of the body, temporality, and spatiality that can establish transversal networks in the legitimate and official history; and in doing so, these narratives can undermine the linearity of the monolithic historical reality in favour ofmore diverse and morally inclusive assemblages and multiple potentials. |
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| ISSN: | 2980-3101 |