Film Studies Publications
Title
"Zero Patience", Genre, Difference, and Ideology: Singing and Dancing Queer Nation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2001
Volume
41
Issue
1
Journal
Cinema Journal
First Page
28
Last Page
40
Abstract
John Greyson's Zero Patience (1993) describes oppressive inscriptions of homosexuality by appropriating and subverting hegemonic systems of representation, such as the documentary and the Hollywood musical and horror genres. Drawing on the work of Louis Althusser, Richard Dyer, Lee Edelman, and Jean-Pierre Oudart, this essay provides an ideological mapping of the film's queer discursivities and genre codings to consider Greyson's dismantling of the spectral gay other constructed by a white, male heteronormative and homophobic camera eye.
Notes
Dr. Christopher Gittings is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.