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Filming Non-Normative Embodiment: Power, Sexuality and Genetic Difference in Jabe Babe – A Heightened Life , a Documentary about a Dominatrix with Marfan Syndrome

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Filming Non-Normative Embodiment: Power, Sexuality and Genetic Difference in Jabe Babe – A Heightened Life , a Documentary about a Dominatrix with Marfan Syndrome

Merewether, Janet
Somatechnics , Volume 1 (2): 334 – Sep 1, 2011
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press
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Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2044-0138
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2044-0146
DOI
10.3366/soma.2011.0023
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<jats:p>This article will examine the ethical and directorial challenges faced by the documentary filmmaker when collaborating with a central subject who lives with a potentially fatal genetic condition, whilst pursuing a career as a professional dominatrix. What modes of representation and collaboration are open to the director, when artificial boundaries and television genre categorisations such as ‘the science documentary’, ‘the biography’ and the fetish or ‘porno film’ seem limiting? Jabe Babe – A Heightened Life ( Merewether 2005 ) seeks to collapse and merge these conventionally distinct practices by developing a hybrid mode of representation, provoking questions about society's desire for sexual, visual, and genetic conformity.</jats:p>

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Somatechnics – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2011

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