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naked among fellow secondary school pupils. Having been deluged with infor-
mation from Nazi-in hiding Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellan) on his experiences
in sending Jews to the gas chambers -- under the guise of sending them to the
showers -- Todd has a delusionary second at which other showering pupils
are viewed as starved and dying incarcerated Jews. This is an apparent and
meaningful arena in the lm, one which is ostensibly designed to indicate the
traumatic effect of private anecdotal and autobiographical records or narratives
of abuse, homicide and genocide. Nevertheless, several of the showering extras led a
Litigation against director Bryan Singer and other crew members, claiming the naked
shoot subjected them to 'sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, [and] bogus
imprisonment [on the set]'. The critical element in the legal claim was that Singer
'appeared . . . to be a full-edged gay' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998).
On the other hand, nearly all the plaintiffs' claims -- both legal and voiced during
media interviews -- expressed the intense discomfort they felt being naked beginning.
As one plaintiff get it, 'there was smoke men who had to stand on each side, and
all they did was sit there and look at you while they are pouring their smoke. It's
basically like all eyes are on you' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998). The suit caused a
media scandal, with several newspaper and television interviews being allowed the
Youthful plaintiffs and their attorney, although the craze was stemmed somewhat
Post says that: 'Several individuals present on the set denied the crew eyed the
boys in a sexual way' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998), that's, they kept that
the gaze wasn't a sexual gaze.
What's interesting about this case is not just the ways in which the
accusation that the manager and other crew members identied as gay is seen to
collapse homosexual identity into gay sexual behaviour, but the wholesale collapse of
nudity into sexuality. One of many fundamental plaintiffs made the following statement
in a court file:
I used ton't want to be standing there for the world to see. . . . That to me is for me and my future
wife to see, and for us only. Bonita and Juniper Woods Naturist Resorts! 's not for the enjoyment of the homosexuals on the set.... I
don't like being oogled [sic].
For this extra, nakedness as gazed-upon belongs merely to Grosz's framework amount
two, the intimate or sexual context, thereby disintegrating the contexts that
Shield the appearance of nakedness for the purpose of showering, whether 'for
Actual' or on the set of a lm.
Where nakedness under the gaze of others is now more commonly causing
anxiety, worry, shame or even terror, it hits at the very solidity of the self as
subject. If all subjective performativity is, as Butler (1990) reveals, a citation of the
signier, then the instability of the signier of nakedness undermines the psychic
self as it really is represented in and by culture. In other words, if nakedness can no
More be ascertained and delineated clearly in particular sites and under particu-
lar gazes, then it risks destabilizing the performativity of the topic by intro-
ducing an anxiety-causing confrontation with shaky signiers. The instability of
the frames sabotages the issue's awareness of coherence and intelligibility, and the
discomfort in nakedness can be seen to be a distress with the question of what
nakedness is for.
Reading as the Pornographic
In the various competing contextual spaces in which nakedness is performed
legitimately, one includes a set of ritual and institutional power structures of
Changing sorts, where the empowered (and usually clothed) subject is
Placed to perform a non-sexual gazing at an objectied naked body. This
frame is most easily experienced in contemporary society by children being
bathed, dressed or supervised by parents, guardians or older sibs, or by
patients being analyzed, prepared or used on by doctors, surgeons and other
medics.
Would You remember the first time you Cooled Nekkid? that such a relationship is not always automatically non-sexual
in the conditions of sexual given by modern culture.
In 1995, a Visual Arts student at a Western Australian university was arrested
and charged by authorities with 'indecently recording . . . a child under thirteen years
by the shooting of still photographs' (Bowles et al., 1998: 5).
4
The pictures were
depictions of her own naked sons, taken as part of a job in a photomedia
degree. Although Moms and Daughters Free From Body Issues used ancient poses -- a regular motif used by such
mation from Nazi-in hiding Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellan) on his experiences
in sending Jews to the gas chambers -- under the guise of sending them to the
showers -- Todd has a delusionary second at which other showering pupils
are viewed as starved and dying incarcerated Jews. This is an apparent and
meaningful arena in the lm, one which is ostensibly designed to indicate the
traumatic effect of private anecdotal and autobiographical records or narratives
of abuse, homicide and genocide. Nevertheless, several of the showering extras led a
Litigation against director Bryan Singer and other crew members, claiming the naked
shoot subjected them to 'sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, [and] bogus
imprisonment [on the set]'. The critical element in the legal claim was that Singer
'appeared . . . to be a full-edged gay' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998).
On the other hand, nearly all the plaintiffs' claims -- both legal and voiced during
media interviews -- expressed the intense discomfort they felt being naked beginning.
As one plaintiff get it, 'there was smoke men who had to stand on each side, and
all they did was sit there and look at you while they are pouring their smoke. It's
basically like all eyes are on you' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998). The suit caused a
media scandal, with several newspaper and television interviews being allowed the
Youthful plaintiffs and their attorney, although the craze was stemmed somewhat
Post says that: 'Several individuals present on the set denied the crew eyed the
boys in a sexual way' (Cheevers and Ebner, 1998), that's, they kept that
the gaze wasn't a sexual gaze.
What's interesting about this case is not just the ways in which the
accusation that the manager and other crew members identied as gay is seen to
collapse homosexual identity into gay sexual behaviour, but the wholesale collapse of
nudity into sexuality. One of many fundamental plaintiffs made the following statement
in a court file:
I used ton't want to be standing there for the world to see. . . . That to me is for me and my future
wife to see, and for us only. Bonita and Juniper Woods Naturist Resorts! 's not for the enjoyment of the homosexuals on the set.... I
don't like being oogled [sic].
For this extra, nakedness as gazed-upon belongs merely to Grosz's framework amount
two, the intimate or sexual context, thereby disintegrating the contexts that
Shield the appearance of nakedness for the purpose of showering, whether 'for
Actual' or on the set of a lm.
Where nakedness under the gaze of others is now more commonly causing
anxiety, worry, shame or even terror, it hits at the very solidity of the self as
subject. If all subjective performativity is, as Butler (1990) reveals, a citation of the
signier, then the instability of the signier of nakedness undermines the psychic
self as it really is represented in and by culture. In other words, if nakedness can no
More be ascertained and delineated clearly in particular sites and under particu-
lar gazes, then it risks destabilizing the performativity of the topic by intro-
ducing an anxiety-causing confrontation with shaky signiers. The instability of
the frames sabotages the issue's awareness of coherence and intelligibility, and the
discomfort in nakedness can be seen to be a distress with the question of what
nakedness is for.
Reading as the Pornographic
In the various competing contextual spaces in which nakedness is performed
legitimately, one includes a set of ritual and institutional power structures of
Changing sorts, where the empowered (and usually clothed) subject is
Placed to perform a non-sexual gazing at an objectied naked body. This
frame is most easily experienced in contemporary society by children being
bathed, dressed or supervised by parents, guardians or older sibs, or by
patients being analyzed, prepared or used on by doctors, surgeons and other
medics.
Would You remember the first time you Cooled Nekkid? that such a relationship is not always automatically non-sexual
in the conditions of sexual given by modern culture.
In 1995, a Visual Arts student at a Western Australian university was arrested
and charged by authorities with 'indecently recording . . . a child under thirteen years
by the shooting of still photographs' (Bowles et al., 1998: 5).
4
The pictures were
depictions of her own naked sons, taken as part of a job in a photomedia
degree. Although Moms and Daughters Free From Body Issues used ancient poses -- a regular motif used by such
