Fugitive Aesthetics: Embodiment, Sexuality and Escape from Alcatraz. Issue 1 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chare, Nicholas
• Is Part Of: Paragraph. Volume 38:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 54
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Criticism -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Art criticism -- Periodicals; 809
• DOI: 10.3366/para.2015.0145
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-8334

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This essay builds on Jacques Rancière's exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics to analyse queer sexuality in Don Siegel's prison film <italic>Escape from Alcatraz</italic>. The film both illustrates and embodies what Rancière refers to as a redistribution of the sensible, an opening up of a new way of making sense of the world. In <italic>Escape from Alcatraz</italic> this sense-making is bound up with same-sex desire. Rancière is usually concerned with aesthetic practices linked to class struggle. This essay, however, examines how Rancière's ideas are also illuminating in relation to subjugated sexual experiences.</p> </abstract>