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"It's Only a Piece of Meat": Gender Ambiguity, Sexuality, and Politics in The Crying Game and M. Butterfly
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 4, Summer 2003
- pp. 3-28
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0016
- Article
- Additional Information
Presenting a primarily psychoanalytic discussion of The Crying Game and M. Butterfly, this article elaborates on existing and predominantly homosexual readings of these films and examines the connotations of the particular relation that they imply between the sexual and the political.