Melissa Hardie

Bio

Melissa Jane Hardie is Associate Dean Undergraduate in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Recent publications include a chapter on post-structuralism and queer theory and forthcoming is a consideration of the closet after queer theory.

Contributions

The Ante-Closet: Figurability, Sexual Modernity, and Dog Day Afternoon

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Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon represents sexual identity in the early 1970s in terms of an “ante-closet” temporally and spatially located “ahead” of or “before” more familiar closet epistemologies.

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sexuality film