Notes on Beauty Queens - December 16, 2016: Difference between revisions

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Ambivalence: Raw emotions / Staged emotions

Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance

At the hight of Joy an opposed truths seems to be revealed. To me the women seem to screem I want to break free from this fucked up system

Note: Candidates of beauty pageants have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc

Ine: Bataille on ecstasy

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-Ambivalence:
+Ambivalence: Raw emotions / Staged emotions
-Raw emotions / Staged emotions
-Attracted / Repelled
 Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance
-Repressive system
+At the hight of Joy an opposed truths seems to be revealed. To me the women seem to screem ''I want to break free'' from this fucked up system
-Candidates have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc
-Moment of extreme joy on image cropped out turns into something else as if these woman are about to experience something horrible
-Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities. The diva embodies great passions and oscilates between symbolic and real body.
+Note: Candidates of beauty pageants have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc
 Ine: Bataille on ecstasy