Cruising Mat Motor: Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/throughKL Menjerit
| العنوان: | Cruising Mat Motor: Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/throughKL Menjerit |
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| المؤلفون: | David C.L. Lim |
| المصدر: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 7:62-80 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2006. |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cultural Studies, media_common.quotation_subject, Human sexuality, Gender studies, Representation (arts), language.human_language, State (polity), Argument, Masculinity, language, Queer, Sociology, Homosexuality, Malay, media_common |
| الوصف: | This paper examines the construction of working‐class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working‐class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into account both filmic elements and the sexual geography of Kuala Lumpur (KL), where shifting biker spaces sometimes intersect with homosexual cruising sites. My argument is that the film’s representation of the Mat Motor protagonist as unbendingly straight and heterosexually jantan – while imaginably gratifying to the core audience of Mat Motors – actually belies the opposite reality of KL’s ‘forgotten’ underside, where gender and sexuality are much more fluid and malleable than is sanctioned by society and the state. |
| تدمد: | 1469-8447 1464-9373 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14649370500463133 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c7d7cd9075a8de9332df8c850d261099 https://doi.org/10.1080/14649370500463133 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........c7d7cd9075a8de9332df8c850d261099 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14698447 14649373 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/14649370500463133 |