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Hiltzik Sleepaway Camp (1984) (The flashback scene: Martha's "…
Hiltzik
Sleepaway Camp
(1984)
How do we feel
C R I N G E
Plays with gender (for better or worse)
ugh pedophilia
opening scene
girl can't drive the boat; sets up normative expectations about gender and driving
doesn't give us closure
plays on disorienting us from the first scene--who are these folks? Doesn't get explained until end
Martha: doctor; strange vocal patterns; she feels "off" or out of place
as a doctor, locates truth of body in medical paperwork
How does this make us think about camp--highlights the vulnerability of children, the dark sides of camps (pedophilia, bad press, etc)
issues of bullying and retaliation
muteness and disability: calling out Angela's muteness; issues of silence, non-responsive, and questions about trauma
if we organize bodies in summer camp in a gender binary, what are the implications of such a
How does the camera angles work to "trick" us: Ricky's hands in the chef's death scene
What happens with audience response (LGBTQ+ audiences); issues of camp? Does the queer identifications/pleasures of Camp make this more progressive?
use of men's bodies to queer code the film? Bring in same-sex oriented audiences?
how does this fit into the 1980s sexual culture?
does representation equal empowerment?
does this help shift the narrative where trans women are made the most vulnerable in society?
"She's a carpenter's dream: flat as a board and in need of a screw"--emphasis on the Camp of summer camp; campy ironic dialogue that doesn't match the horror?
ithe insults are rooted in bodily issues: "flat" breasts, no hair on her public region
The flashback scene: Martha's "psychotic break" about gendering Angela. "I've always wanted a little girl"
says "peter" then head turns up--shocking us auidence members; doubles the shock with the edit to Angela's monster face
really loud non diegetic tones to amp up anxiety; jump scarey
locates "truth" of the body on genitals
feels clinical/sterile/hospitally: use of lighting
it's an echoey soundscape (emphasizes her flashback)
as a piece of meta-film, it's calling attention to itself--as we're in her mind, it's about us as voyeurs? Ways to dramatize/film "memory" and its flexibility
How does this film render/represent heterosexuality? Homosexuality? Gender Variance
shows same-sex intimacy as laughable or wrong?
the flashback with Peter and ANgela swapping sides/pointing/exposing truth of sex/sexuality. The spinning camera is about merging--distoretd music box. Gender spiraling out of control!
homosexuality as trauma
Ronnie: "She's a boy!" not "That's Paul's head!"
The baseball scene:
FASHION crop tops and jorts; it reads as homoerotic for our 2019 sensabilities
Ronnie's ensembles (that's underwear)
coding men for visual pleasure: older counselors are in crop tops and short shorts
What's up in the 1980s
HIV/AIDS epidemic; if HIV/AIDS is a "gay disease," the film solidifies the stigma about queer bodies? The violence against heteronormative folks. We were tricked--she's a boy!
the DSM III published in 1980 classifies transsexualism as a disorder
popular news about discrimination with folks with HIV/ AIDS; simultaneously support for queer coded stars?