{"id":929,"date":"2016-02-19T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=929"},"modified":"2016-02-19T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:45:47","slug":"oz-the-great-and-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/02\/19\/oz-the-great-and-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Oz the Great and Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Wizard of Oz, <\/em>a movie classic and a personal favorite, especially when I was younger I watched this movie all the time, along with listening to the audio on a cassette tape. Although I loved this movie, I would always become frightened and confused when Dorothy crossed over to Oz. As I became older, the movie became creepier, as I\u2019m still trying to decipher why this is. However, looking through the lens of Halberstam, The Wizard of Oz<\/em> is a queer classic movie. Halberstam defines \u201cqueer time and queer space\u201d as being \u201cof strange temporalities, imaginative life schedules, and eccentric economic practices\u201d (Halberstam, 1).<\/p>\n

If we take a moment to deconstruct Dorothy\u2019s predicaments before the tornado, we lay the base understanding of queer time and space. Dorothy\u2019s companion is a dog-named Toto, and she lives within the bindings of a heternormative lifestyle in rural Kansas. Unable to conform to a possibly foreseeable barren life around her she runs away only to return right when a storm is tearing through the desolate Kansas land. Queer time and space becomes apparent as soon as the screen turns into color. Dorothy has left the \u201ctemporal frames of\u2026family\u201d (Halberstam, 6) and now has entered a world of Witches, dwarfs, talking words of endearment and flying monkeys. Although Dorothy is physically present within the modern world, she has also managed to be physically here in queer time (Oz). Oz creates a world in which queerness has become the framework of their existence. To define further what I mean by queerness in terms of Oz is that in the film, the rainbow is seen as symbolic of the LGBTQ+ flag, Dorothy has escaped a heternormative lifestyle and now is exploring a state that is not non-normative, a place in which Dorothy\u2019s desires, whether that be through the understanding of her sexuality or friendships (with the scarecrow, lion and tinman). This represents the unwinding of time, and the embodiment of postmodernity, it is as though the place of Oz is queer centrality, and Dorothy exists within the subcultures, navigating an unimagined future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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