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Grey-Haze Bannon

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An initial viewing of Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria gives the distinct impression of gayness, however, the more than four-decade academic consensus is one of contrarily failed gayness, or even homophobia depending on the author [1]. This is due to an unacknowledged expiration of methodology, constant deconstruction that has left the landscape of critique barren of anything new to add. Such a failure stems from the form of movies, where the subject of the viewer, instead of creating the story in their head, is instead made to inactively consume the story, preventing even critics from making something new of what they've been given [2]. In order to actually get this something new out of critiquing Victor/Victoria then, we will have to create its story instead of consuming it, and in doing so, create new possibilities that can spring forth from it. This mode, coined Recuperative Critique by the presenter's advisor, is not a refutation of deconstruction, but rather an inversion of it. By recognizing that the work in question has been adequately deconstructed, to the extent that there is little if any to be gained from the current line of deconstructive analysis, the constituent parts of the work may be taken, evaluated, and if desired built into something new. In short, having been presented with all the ways and means by which Victor/Victoria failed to be gay enough, the object of any further critique then is to make it even gayer.

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University of Illinois Chicago

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Grey-Haze Bannon