Open AccessLooking Beneath the Skin
Author(s) -
Evangelos Tziallas
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
stream
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-5897
DOI - 10.21810/strm.v1i1.3
Subject(s) - queer , human sexuality , movie theater , style (visual arts) , aesthetics , categorization , gender studies , sociology , art , history , psychoanalysis , literature , psychology , philosophy , epistemology
Since the New Queer Cinema explosion, the style and content of Gregg Araki's films have changed in seemingly drastic ways. However, my paper argues that his films, although more mature, are just as radical today as they were in the beginning of his career. Mysterious Skin is a controversial film that looks at early childhood sexuality and its relationship to teenage sexual development. I argue that Araki looks at contemporary queer life in all its complexity and demonstrates that both sexuality and sexual development are far too complicated to quantify and categorize.