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Author_Lee Wallace
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changing narrative of intimacy
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Hollywood marriage plot
valorization of intimacy
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- ISBN 9781478008101
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2020
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality-far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted-is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell's analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films-Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936); Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)-that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentally alter our sense of what sexual attachment involves as both a social and a romantic form.
Lee Wallace is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and author of Lesbianism, Cinema, Space: The Sexual Life of Apartments.
