The Perils of Pedagogy : The Works of John Greyson

Whether Addressing Hiv/aids, The Policing Of Bathroom Sex, Censorship, Or Anti-globalization Movements, John Greyson Has Imbued His Work With Cutting Humour, Eroticism, And Postmodern Aesthetics. Mashing Up High Art, Opera, Community Activism, And Pop Culture, Greyson Challenges His Audience To Consider New Ways That Images Can Intervene In Both Political And Public Spheres.emerging On The Toronto Scene In The Late 1970s, Greyson Has Produced An Eclectic, Provocative, And Award-winning Body Of Work In Film And Video. The Essays In The Perils Of Pedagogy Range From Personal Meditations To Provocative Textual Readings To Studies Of The Historical Contexts In Which The Artist's Works Intervened Politically As Well As Artistically. Notable Writers From A Range Of Disciplines As Well As Prominent Experimental And Activist Filmmakers Tackle Questions Of Documentary Ethics, Moving Image Activism, And Queer Coalitional Politics Raised By Greyson's Work. Close To One Hundred Frame Captures And Stills From Almost Sixty Works, Along With Articles, Speeches, And Short Scripts By Greyson - Several Never Before Published - Supplement The Collection.celebrating Thirty Years Of Passionate, Brilliant, And Affecting Moviemaking, The Perils Of Pedagogy Will Fascinate Both Specialists And General Readers Interested In Media Activism And Advocacy, Censorship, And Freedom Of Expression.--publisher's Website. Introduction / Brenda Longfellow, Scott Mackenzie, And Thomas Waugh. -- Part 1: Historical Contexts, Queer Activism. Notes On Greyzone / Thomas Waugh ; Solidarity In Motion: Manzana Por Manzana And To Pick Is Notto Choose / Chuck Kleinhans ; Tell A Story, Save A Life (montage 1987-89) / Douglas Crimp ; Buggering John Greyson / Cindy Patton ; John Greyson's After The Bath, Moral Panic, And Interpublic Address / Vincent Doyle. --^ Part 2: Obsessions. John Greyson's Queer Internationalism / Richard Fung ; Parsing The Transnational In John Greyson's Queer Cinema: Proteus,fig Trees, Covered, And Hey Elton / Chris E. Gittings ; Fables Of Empire: The Intimate Histories Of John Greyson / Susan Lord ; And Now For Something Completely Dissident: The Parodichistorical And Archival Necrology Of John Greyson / Scott Mackenzie ; Froth And Its Uses / Gary Kibbins ; Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections On The Cinemaof John Greyson (2002) / Christine Ramsay ; Strike A Pose: Notes Towards Queering Tableau And Temporalityin The Work Of John Greyson / Kass Banning ; Audio Visual Judo / Mike Hoolboom ; God Is A Lesbian, Says John / Deirdre Logue. --^ Part 3: In His Own Words.^ The Boxboys (from The Body Politic, September 1979) / John Greyson ; Fact And Fiction (from The Body Politic, November 1979) / John Greyson ; Skirting The Issue (from The Body Politic, April 1981) / John Greyson ; Queer Behind The Curtain: Interview With John Greyson(from The Body Politic, October 1985) / Tim Mccaskell ; Parma Violets (from Urinal And Other Stories, [1988] 1993) / John Greyson ; Still Searching (from A Leap In The Dark: Aids, Art & Contemporarycultures, 1992) / John Greyson ; Security Blankets: Sex, Video, And The Police (from Queer Looks:perspectives On Lesbian And Gay Film And Video, 1993) / John Greyson ; The Coconut Strategy: Shape-shifting In Filmmaking (from Montage,fall 2001) / John Greyson ; Something Always Seems To Go Wrong Somewhere: Eisenstein At Thebarricades, Pasolini At The Baths (from Public 25 [2002]) / John Greyson ; The Singing Dunes: Colin Campbell, 1943-2001 (from C Magazine, 2002) / John Greyson ; Pils Slip (from Vertigo,^ Autumn 2005) / John Greyson ; Everett Klippert: A Musical Waiting To Happen (unpublished, 2005) / John Greyson ; A Whore On Terror: Several Quodlibets (unpublished, 2006) / John Greyson ; Waiting For Gaydot (unpublished, 2009) / John Greyson. --^ Part 4: The Film. Defending Desire: Direct(ing) Gay Male Sex (1996) / Chris Straayer ; On The Uses And Disadvantages Of A History Of The Other: An Untimelymeditation (1995) / John Champagne ; Nice Gun You've Got There: John Greyson's Critiqueof Masculinity (1992) / Laura U. Marks ; Bash Back, Baby, Your Life Depends On It: Pedagogical Responses To Anti-gay Violence In John Greyson's The Making Of Monsters / Susan Knabe And Wendy Gay Pearson ; Zero Patience, The Musical / Kay Armatage ; But ... It's So Beautiful: Collective Fantasy In Lilies / Shannon Brownlee ; Three Peters And An Obsession With Pierre:intellectual Property In John Greyson's Un©ut / Martin Zeilinger And Rosemary J.^ Coombe ; Counting Time In The Law Of Enclosures / Peter Dickinson ; Queer Anachronism And National Memory In Proteus / Roger Hallas ; Ten Propositions On Operatic Subversions And The Charge Of The Real In John Greyson's Fig Trees / Brenda Longfellow ; Thoughts On Fig Trees (2003) / Bongani Ndodana-breen ; Opera Games (2003) / David Wall. Edited By Brenda Longfellow, Scott Mackenzie, And Thomas Waugh. Includes Reprints Of Texts By John Greyson. Includes Bibliographical References, Filmography, And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Formats. Cover Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword 1 Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS, QUEER ACTIVISM 2 Notes on Greyzone 3 Solidarity in Motion: Manzana por Manzana and To Pick Is Not to Choose 4 “Tell a Story, Save a Life” (Montage 1987–89) 5 Buggering John Greyson 6 John Greyson’s After the Bath, Moral Panic, and Interpublic Address PART II: OBSESSIONS 7 John Greyson’s Queer Internationalism 8 Parsing the Transnational in John Greyson’s Queer Cinema: Proteus, Fig Trees, Covered, and Hey Elton 9 Fables of Empire: The Intimate Histories of John Greyson 10 And Now for Something Completely Dissident: The “Parodic Historical” and “Archival Necrology” of John Greyson 11 Froth and Its Uses 12 Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections on the Cinema of John Greyson (2002) 13 “Strike a Pose”: Notes towards Queering Tableau and Temporality in the Work of John Greyson 14 Audio Visual Judo 15 “God is a lesbian,” Says John PART III: IN HIS OWN WORDS 16 The Boxboys (from The Body Politic, September 1979) 17 Fact and Fiction (from The Body Politic, November 1979) 18 Skirting the Issue (from The Body Politic, April 1981) 19 Queer behind the Curtain: Interview with John Greyson (from The Body Politic, October 1985) 20 Parma Violets (from Urinal and Other Stories, [1988] 1993) 21 Still Searching (from A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures, 1992) 22 Security Blankets: Sex, Video, and the Police (from Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, 1993) 23 The Coconut Strategy: Shape-Shifting in Filmmaking (from Montage, Fall 2001) 24 Something Always Seems to Go Wrong Somewhere: Eisenstein at the Barricades, Pasolini at the Baths (from Public 25 [2002]) 25 The Singing Dunes: Colin Campbell, 1943–2001 (from C Magazine, 2002) 26 PILS SLIP (from Vertigo, Autumn 2005) 27 Everett Klippert: A Musical Waiting to Happen (unpublished, 2005) 28 A Whore on Terror: Several Quodlibets (unpublished, 2006) 29 Waiting for Gaydot (unpublished, 2009) PART IV: THE FILMS 30 Defending Desire: Direct(ing) Gay Male Sex (1996) 31 On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other: An Untimely Meditation (1995) 32 “Nice gun you’ve got there”: John Greyson’s Critique of Masculinity (1992) 33 “Bash back, baby, your life depends on it”: Pedagogical Responses to Anti-Gay Violence in John Greyson’s The Making of “Monsters” 34 Zero Patience, The Musical 35 “But ... it’s so beautiful”: Collective Fantasy in Lilies 36 Three Peters and an Obsession with Pierre: Intellectual Property in John Greyson’s Un©ut 37 Counting Time in The Law of Enclosures 38 Queer Anachronism and National Memory in Proteus 39 Ten Propositions on Operatic Subversions and the “Charge of the Real” in John Greyson’s Fig Trees 40 Thoughts on Fig Trees (2003) 41 Opera Games (2003) Filmography John Greyson: Selected Writings Works Cited Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres. Emerging on the Toronto scene in the late 1970s, Greyson has produced an eclectic, provocative, and award-winning body of work in film and video. The essays in The Perils of Pedagogy range from personal meditations to provocative textual readings to studies of the historical contexts in which the artist's works intervened politically as well as artistically. Notable writers from a range of disciplines as well as prominent experimental and activist filmmakers tackle questions of documentary ethics, moving image activism, and queer coalitional politics raised by Greyson's work. Close to one hundred frame captures and stills from almost sixty works, along with articles, speeches, and short scripts by Greyson - several never before published - supplement the collection. Celebrating thirty years of passionate, brilliant, and affecting moviemaking, The Perils of Pedagogy will fascinate both specialists and general readers interested in media activism and advocacy, censorship, and freedom of expression."--Publisher's website Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres Essays in The Perils of Pedagogy range from personal meditations to provocative textual readings to studies of the historical contexts in which the artist's works intervened politically as well as artistically. Notable writers from a range of disciplines as well as prominent experimental and activist filmmakers tackle questions of documentary ethics, moving image activism, and queer coalitional politics raised by Greyson's work. Close to one hundred frame captures and stills from almost sixty works, along with articles, speeches, and short scripts by Greyson - several never before published - supplement the collection. Celebrating thirty years of passionate, brilliant, and affecting moviemaking, For both specialists and general readers interested in media activism and advocacy, censorship, and freedom of expression