Out of Sight: Gender in Scopic and Aural Systems

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dc.contributor.advisorRoof, Judith Aen_US
dc.creatorBeroiza, Alanna Margaritaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-17T15:52:49Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-05-17T15:52:49Zen_US
dc.date.created2018-08en_US
dc.date.issued2018-08-09en_US
dc.date.submittedAugust 2018en_US
dc.date.updated2019-05-17T15:52:49Zen_US
dc.description.abstractFrom delivery rooms, to bathrooms, to celebrity boudoirs on the cover of Vanity Fair, gender, in its mainstream, contemporary definitions, circulates around visually articulated binary imaginaries of bodily materiality. These formulations depend on the visibly sexed body to act as a site of subjective “truth,” and this dependence only intensifies as medical, legal, educational, and popular cultural institutions increasingly recognize gender as “fluid.” Out of Sight: Gender in Scopic and Aural Systems examines the systems of representation that both enable the visible body to function as a site of subjective “truth” and expose it as a stand-in for the subject in mainstream models of gender. The project employs psychoanalytic, systems, and media theory to investigate the ways in which visual media technologies, such as photographs, digital images, and films, both suture and disclose the fiction of gender in their representations of bodily materiality. Additionally, the project explores the ways in which aural modes of representation—specifically, the voice—both radically undermine, and intensely reify, the totalizing illusions of the visual that sustain the fiction of the body as a material truth in mainstream gender. In critical analyses of texts that range from Annie Leibovitz’s photographs of Caitlyn Jenner for Vanity Fair, to archival images from the Documentary Collection at the Kinsey Institute, to Wynne Neilly’s photographic installation at Ryerson Image Centre, to films by Pedro Almodóvar, Sebastián Lelio, and Chase Joynt, the project demonstrates how scopic and aural systems of representation facilitate the conceptual collapse of gender into sex and visually articulated bodily materiality. In the same breath, these analyses also demonstrate—and the project as a whole insists—that this reductive, yet hugely pervasive, model for gender is but one of many possibilities for understanding subjects and the organization of their experiences and desires.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBeroiza, Alanna Margarita. "Out of Sight: Gender in Scopic and Aural Systems." (2018) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105812">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105812</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105812en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectMedia Studiesen_US
dc.subjectFilmen_US
dc.subjectVisual Mediaen_US
dc.subjectAural Mediaen_US
dc.subjectVoiceen_US
dc.subjectSexen_US
dc.subjectPhotographyen_US
dc.subjectSounden_US
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen_US
dc.subjectSystems Theoryen_US
dc.titleOut of Sight: Gender in Scopic and Aural Systemsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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