Contact information
Name:
Mary A. Armstrong
Phone:
610-330-5992
Email:
armstrom@lafayette.edu
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When:
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Where:
Kirby 104
Presenter:
Professor Heidi M. Schlipphacke
Price:
This talk highlights the convergences between ‘queer’ and ‘straight’ responses to Ernst Marischka's popular Sissi film trilogy (1955-1957). ‘Sissi’ herself is both a cherished queer icon and a much-loved heroine to mainstream German and Austrian film audiences. While the popularity of the Sissi films is often attributed to its positive representation of the ‘marriage’ between Germany and Austria, the mood of these films is melancholic rather than festive. The Sissi films reveal surprising correlations between a queer affect of melancholy that is unable to mourn its repressed history and a German and Austrian post-fascist mode of melancholy that cannot mourn its guilty past.
Sponsored by:
The Women's and Gender Studies Program, The Film and Media Studies Program, and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures