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Carver, Terrell. "Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing "Some Like it Hot" as a Heterosexual Dystopia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209445_index.html>

Carver, T. , 2007-08-30 "Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing "Some Like it Hot" as a Heterosexual Dystopia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2010-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209445_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Politics is constituted as a realm of �the serious�, and �no laughing matter.� Even self-avowedly constructed political performances and spectacles have to be taken �with a straight face.� It follows from this that political jokes, satires, parodies, mockery and ridicule � as a constitutive �outside� � are as old as politics itself, and � because they are critical rather than referential � a more varied source of meaning and greater stimulus to interpretation. Gender was more a �laughing matter� in 1959 when �Some Like It Hot� was released than it was a focus for political struggle. In the film, heterosexuality, bounded of course by �noticed� yet disavowed markers of homosexuality, coincided with heteronormativity, as yet unchallenged and therefore unconceptualized. Since 1990 Judith Butler has retheorized gender as �performative� in relation to the binary and hierarchical concepts through which both sex and sexuality are produced as identity-creating and individually-disciplining constructs of power/knowledge. Her work enables the viewer to see, and therefore interpret, this classic film in a new way. Wilder�s script deconstructs gender (as voice, body language, dress and heteronormative desire) in a clever vocabulary of constructed opposites and matches/mismatches, articulated through a framework that �nothing is what it seems.� It presents the physical sexed body as an object produced through conceptualization. It virtually lectures the viewer on �performativity� as repetition, citation, and naturalization of the self. It deconstructs heterosexual romance as psychological fatalism and as a mercenary search for security. Overall it is a romantic fairy tale of transformation and transition from which no one will �live happily ever after,� and indeed the naturalization of heterosexuality as physical reproduction of the species and ethical reproduction via the family is entirely stripped out. The film thus has the savage bleakness of Swiftian satire undercut by laughter and the enactment of the (supposedly) absurd. Seen in a certain light, then, �Some Like It Hot� is intellectually subversive, though as a comedy produced by the commercial entertainment �industry� it is of course positioned outside �serious� politics. This paper uses �Some Like It Hot� to illustrate and explore Butler�s work, and to make visible the way that complex conceptual relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality can be laid out in moving images through a series of logical schemata.

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