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Jun. 12th, 2006 12:55 pmExcerpt from "Maximum Insecurity: Genre Trouble and Closet Erotics in and out of HBO's Oz" by Joe Wlodarz (as published in the Duke University magazine Camera Obscura):
It's sad how much that paragraph alone makes me flail in fangirl bliss. GodDAMN, I love this show.
I am such a nerd.
(Thanks again,
luci_2!!)
What in fact makes Oz so deliciously compelling (and steamy) is the way it consistenly thwarts clear, coherent, and unambiguous expressions of gay desire and identification in favor of a more enticing erotic uncertainty. For it is indeed the combination of hypermasculinity and feminization, the displays and conflicts of manhood, affective excess, and sexual ambiguity that make the series so irresistable to its fans--especially to women and gay male fans--and that, accordingly, establish the program as such as an intriguing example of and source of slash fiction.
It's sad how much that paragraph alone makes me flail in fangirl bliss. GodDAMN, I love this show.
I am such a nerd.
(Thanks again,
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