Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films.

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Low Theory 1
1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27
2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53
3. The Queer Art of Failure 87
4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123
5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147
6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173
Notes 189
Bibliography 193
Index 201

Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.