![]() Indeed, though these public service announcements concluded with the sort of rhetorical flourish associated with hard-fought political campaigns (“We’re fighting for the children. His appearance beside his wife and daughter in a series of public service announcements sponsored by the Ad Council, a nonprofit organization, “raiseīut what helped him most in these public appeals on behalf of America’s children was the social consensus that such an appeal is impossible to refuse. In the spring of 1997, before the right-wing assault on his presidency succeeded in drawing real blood at last, Bill Clinton was the subject of a minor but nonetheless telling political controversy. Most of chapter 4 was originally published in Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, edited by Richard Allen and S. Reprinted by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. Matthews and David McWhirter copyright 2003 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. Much of what now appears as chapter 2 was originally published as “Sinthom-osexuality” in Aesthetic Subjects, edited by Pamela R. I am happy to acknowledge the publishers who have given me permission to include them here.Ĭhapter 1 was published, in an earlier version, as “The Future is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive,” in Narrative (January 1998). The following chapters, in different, and in all cases significantly shorter, form, have already appeared in print. I am also grateful to Susan Ernst, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, for providing the necessary funds to obtain the stills that appear in the text. I would like to thank the Trustees of Tufts College for funding the sabbatical during which I completed work on this book. His generosity, both emotional and intellectual, makes better everything it touches and I count myself singularly fortunate to be able to owe him so very much. ![]() My debt to Joseph Litvak is in a category of its own and continues, daily, accumulating interest beyond my ability to repay it. However much they might wish it otherwise, they are part of this book as well. Miller, Leland Monk, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Mary Ann O’Farrell, Joe Parenteau, Donald Pease, Frances Restuccia, Valerie Rohy, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Ashley Shelden, Catharine Spencer, Henry Turner, Rebecca Walkowitz, and Ken Wissoker.Ī special word of thanks must go to Alan, Erica, Larry, Joni, Leah, Avi, Sam, Greg, Doug, Brian, and Ben. Martin, Pamela Matthews, Madhavi Menon, David McWhirter, Helena Michie, D. It gives me great pleasure to name their names and to acknowledge their importance to this book: Richard Allen, Nancy Armstrong, Matthew Bell, Courtney Berger, Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, John Brenkman, Judith Brown, Amy Ruth Buchanan, Oliver Buckton, Bonnie Burns, William Cain, Robert Caserio, Jane Chance, Rey Chow, Douglas Crimp, Andrew Cunningham, Sheila Emerson, Diana Fuss, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Jonathan Goldberg, Sam Ishu Gonzales, Ellis Hanson, Jonathan Gil Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Judith Hoover, Barbara Johnson, Elizabeth Langland, Kate Lothman, Robert K. All, in their various ways, provided the intellectual companionship without which such a project as this could never be sustained. ![]() Still others, whether they knew it or not, gave me the courage to let this argument go as far as it demanded. Some assisted in the preparation of the manuscript and the images used to illustrate it, while others were invaluable in the editing and design of the book it now has become. A number of them invited me to give lectures that later developed into chapters others raised questions that sharpened or helped clarify its argument. The following people played significant roles in the production of this book. ![]()
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