Queer Historiography

  Watch the 15 minute silent movie called "The Wild Party" by Dorothy Arzner (https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8y1i9yq7vgkb42/wildparty.avi?dl=0) and read the text by Dorothy Arzner which I will attach, then answer the following questions (1-2 paragraphs for each question, try to do two) Don't use any outside sources, thank you! 1) What does Johnston mean by the “discourse of the woman,” in distinction to the “discourse of the male”? (p. 142) How does The Wild Party “rewrite” the male discourse from the perspective of the female one? 2) Johnston refers to Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization, or making-strange. (pp. 144, 145) How does this apply to Arzner’s films, and where do you see it in The Wild Party? 3) How does the possibility of a queer or lesbian cinema disrupt the norms of classical Hollywood? (Hint: see pp. 174-175.) Where, either in The Wild Party or in any other film we’ve seen this term (consider especially Pandora’s Box and The Watermelon Woman), might you see this disruption occurring? And finally, how does race pose a limit to this disruption, as outlined by Mayne?