BRUCE(X)PLOITATION (Diplom)
- Subversion in Bruce LaBruce’s Film 'The Raspberry Reich
Author
Location, Date
Wien, Österreich, 2014
Keywords
Bruce LaBruce, Film, Subversion, Gender, Queer
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The aim of this work is to look at the subversive elements of the movie THE RASPBERRY REICH by Bruce LaBruce. The first section will provide a short summary of the movie itself and a definition of the term subversion. Subsequently I will apply key insights on the discourse of subversiveness on several aspects of the movies, such as the author Bruce LaBruce himself or the concrete production settings of the movie: Furthermore, I will show that subversiveness is the underlying strategy for stylistic devices as well as sex and sexuality in THE RASPBERRY REICH. The depiction of explicit sex scenes by the protagonists, whose characters are based on the patterns of the German terror group “Rote Armee Fraktion”, is one key feature. However, I will argue that Bruce LaBruce liberates these scenes from an equalisation to pornography in order to convey other subversive strategies. In the following section I will turn to the aesthetic level of the movie and discuss the concepts of Camp and Radical Chic, as well as the parallels to Jean-Luc Godard’s techniques and estrangement effects. The overall and fundamental question is, if THE RASPBERRY REICH has to be considered as an artistic, pornographic or political movie? I conclude that Bruce LaBruce cannot be categorized by the common genre criteria, which again is one of the many subversive elements of this movie. All in all, the discussion of the movie THE RASPBERRY REICH in regards to its subversiveness shows that Bruce LaBruce is an artist, who understands subversion as a distinguishing feature of artistic practices, which aim at breaking with prevailing codes and conventions of their genre. Through this work I hope to contribute to the academic understanding and discourse on LaBruce’s unique dealing with content and form of expression, which LaBruce himself calls BRUCE(X)PLOITATION.
Language, Format, Material, Edition
German
Activity List
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- Gabriele Jutz - Supervisor (Graduate Thesis)
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Location
Address
- Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
- Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
- 1010 Wien
- Österreich