Cavalcante's The History Of Sexuality: Movie Analysis

Even in the year 2015, media has evolved slowly towards transsexual movies and films. Movies about transgender, gender identity, and homosexuality, have sprinkled through the industry since the 60’s. Although, most promote the movies as comedies. The readings for this week consist of construing the double works of Paratexts and power and sexuality. First, in the article written by Andre Cavalcante, Centering Transgender Identity via the Textual Periphery: TransAmerica and the “Double Work of Paratexts, this analysis will examine what Cavalcante describes as, ‘paratextual domestication’. Next in order, the analysis will then redirect the focus towards the article, The History of Sexuality, written by Michael Foucault. Lastly, this analysis

Directors aim to market their products without causing offense to the social order and the norms of society. For example, when the director of TransAmerica, Duncan Tucker conducted his first interview following the release of the movie, he labeled the movie as, “healing family comedy than a threatening exploration of transgender issues” (Cavalcante, 2013). This movie embeds arduous substances such as, drug addiction, prostitution and, child abuse. Defining this movie as a ‘comedy’ skates very close to false advertisement. Cavalcante defines “paratextual domestication” as, “Paratexts can erect a “digital closet” for a film “that either denies that the homoeroticism represents homosexuality, or dismisses the possibility of homosexuality,

Towards the ending of the reading Foucault constitutes four fundamental principles in the effect of serving as a guideline regarding his research. First, Rule of Immanence—“local centers”, comprehension that power and knowledge intertwine. Second, Rules of Continual Variation—“distributions of power” and “appropriations of knowledge”. Third, Rule of Double conditioning—“Malthusian Control”, “Pattern of transformation requires strategy, although strategy relies on its own “prop and anchor”. Finally, Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses—“psychic Hermaphrodism” Discourse is the glue that binds knowledge and power (Foucault, 1978). Lastly, the final reading, Freud demonstrates the definition for