Research Catalog

Title

Queer buccaneers : (de)constructing boundaries in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series / Heike Steinhoff.

Author

Steinhoff, Heike

Publication

Berlin : Lit ; New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers [distributor], c2011.

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Details

Description

149 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Pirates captivate the western cultural imagination at the beginning of the 21 st century. Queer Buccaneers addresses this phenomenon through an analysis of the Disney film series Pirates of the Caribbean. Reading the films from a variety of post-structuralist perspectives, this study demonstrates the contradictory discourses and power relations that characterize the series. It argues that 'piracy' constitutes a sliding signifier that facilitates the (de)construction of discursive boundaries of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nationality.

Series Statement

Transnational and transatlantic American studies ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Transnational and transatlantic American studies v. 10.

Subject

• Pirates of the Caribbean, the curse of the Black Pearl (Motion picture)
• Pirates of the Caribbean, dead man's chest (Motion picture)
• Pirates of the Caribbean, at world's end (Motion picture)
• Pirates in motion pictures
• Gender identity
• Queer theory
• Gender Identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3643111002 (pbk.)
• 9783643111005 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 751752874
• SCSB-11336136

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library