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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | "Christ kid, you're a weirdo": a Kristevan reading of Bad Boy Bubby |
| Author: | Iocco, Melissa |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Social Sciences |
| Abstract: | This thesis explores issues of identity and sexuality in the film Bad Boy Hubby, utilising Julia Kristeva's theories on abjection, love and melancholia. Through the examination of the film's representation of the 'self,' sexual difference and the Maternal body, this thesis argues that Bad Boy Hubby is unable to offer cinematic or psychical Oedipal resolution. This inability derives from what emerges in the film as an awareness and exploration of the crisis and disintegration of masculine subjectivity. |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (B.A.(Hons.)) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Social Inquiry, 1998. |
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| Appears in Collections: | School of Social Sciences |
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