The Boys Don't Cry debate: The transgender gaze in Boys Don't Cry

Screen

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 294-298

  Halberstam, Judith ^a  

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EID: 63849329481     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/42.3.294     Document Type: Article

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1. Patricia White has argued that the gaze in Boys is Lana's all along. I think in the first two thirds of the film the gaze is shared between Lana and Brandon, but f agree with White that the film's ending transfers the gaze from Brandon to Lana with some unpredictable consequences. See Patricia White, 'Girls still cry'. Screen, vol. 42, no. 2 (2001), pp. 122-8
2. Kaja Silverman, 'Suture', in The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 236
3. See Aphrodite Jones. All S/he Wanted (New York: Pocket Books, 1996), p. 154