ABSTRACT

This article examines Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2015 film The Lobster in relation to debates about intimate politics in contemporary queer scholarship and queer cinema studies. Rather than reading the film as a satire on compulsory coupling, this article teases out the film’s depiction of both normative and antinormative practices as parallel forms of sexual citizenship. Examining the relationship between normative enactments of gender and sexuality and the regulation of the species boundary, we argue that The Lobster reveals three dichotomies at the core of heteronormative cultural mythologies: male and female, coupled and uncoupled, human and nonhuman. In examining the complex interplay between these categories throughout The Lobster, this article foregrounds the important intersections between critical approaches to normativity established within feminist and queer film studies, and emergent approaches to nonhuman and more-than-human ethics in the environmental humanities.

摘要

本文探讨了 Yorgos Lanthimos 2015 年的电影《龙虾》与当代酷儿学术和酷儿电影研究中关于亲密政治的辩论的关系。本文不是将这部电影解读为对强制耦合的讽刺，而是梳理了电影将规范和反规范实践作为性公民的平行形式的描述。通过考察性别和性行为的规范制定与物种边界的调节之间的关系，我们认为《龙虾》揭示了异性恋文化神话核心的三个二分法：男性和女性、耦合和非耦合、人类和非人类。在检查整个《龙虾》中这些类别之间的复杂相互作用时，本文突出了女权主义和酷儿电影研究中建立的规范性批判方法与环境人文学科中非人类和超人类伦理的新兴方法之间的重要交叉点。