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Volume 14, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

This article examines the obscenity trials against Kenneth Anger’s short films and . I offer an analytical framework, undergirded by an iteration of Edgar Allan Poe’s concept of ‘unity of effect’, to understand the claims the prosecution and defence made about Anger’s films. I explore the interpretative difficulties the films, as short queer films, posed for the legal actors as they grappled with the ‘taken-as-a-whole’ stipulation of obscenity law.

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