Footnote #76 - Performativity
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Performativity gets the Fantasy/Animation treatment in Footnote 76 of the podcast, with Alex taking Chris through the power and implication of language, utterances, meaning, and those writers who have thought about how we do things with words. Topics include how language is essential to the creation of meaning in the world and the emergence of ordinary language philosophy; performative registers, speech acts, and the work of Judith Butler on gendered forms of performativity; fictions, falsehoods, and the societal function of performing gender; and the meaningfulness of utterances that create meaning by doing rather than simply describing.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
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Suggested Readings
Austin, J.L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Bruzzi, Stella. 2000. New Documentary: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
Butler, Judith. 1997. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge.
Doane, Mary Ann. 1982. “Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator,” Screen 23, nos. 3-4: 74–88.
Nichols, Bill. 2001. Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Rose, Jacqueline. 1993. The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.