Like Pier Paolo Pasolini; Alain Robbe-Grillet; and Marguerite Duras; Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studios invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result.Frederic Tuten; in Vogue magazine; wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty; bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn....Dr. Arthur Bauer; attractive in a swinish way; fiftyish; arch-revolutionary theoretician engaged in writing his memoirs; is Sontags anti- or false revolutionary; an arrogant; self-aggrandizing trickster who blurs together revolution and his ego. Francesca; Bauers neurotic; elegantly seductive wife; supports her husbands mystifications while composing her own. Tomas; an earnest student revolutionary hired by Bauer to catalogue his documents; and Ingrid; Tomass impressionable girlfriend; are the fodder for the elder couples psychological and sexual feast."With this film Susan Sontag joins the company of writers-filmmakers and offers her own special contribution to cinematic art. Note: This eBook edition does not contain images.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Awesome book!By FrancineThis is a great book; quite interesting and useful for all those who research or who just want to know more about crossdressing and transvestiting through the years.The book arrived in good conditions and very quickly; considering it was an international purchase; it took just a bit longer than a random national one! Just the paper cover involving the hard cover was a bit torn.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Profound Book and Easy to ReadBy Jeffrey DieterThis book is superb. Garber not only explores the subject of cross-dressing (which is absolutely fascinating) but also interrogates societal attitudes; challenges categories and categorization; and illustrates why the ubiquitous and often unchallenged binaries of straight/gay and woman/man need to be questioned. It is a book that unapologetically analyzes the notion of whether clothes do or do not make the (wo)man. The verdict? Read the book and fashion your own conclusions.12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. crossdressing acadamic insightBy A Customerfirst off; i cant say i would recommend this book to someone who doesnt have a more academic background; flitting as it does from foucault to freud back again; but i have to say that its critique thesis are well-reasoned; well-argued; definitely well-referenced! its like a cross dressing field guide in some ways... i found myself making up a list of movies/books to check out. even moreso; its a great book for anyone wanting to study gender construction in general... as it gets at that shadowy figure inbetween the genders; who belies/affirms all the constructs...thank you marjorie garber!
