In I Love Dick, published in , Chris Kraus, author of Aliens Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, /5(). · Chris Kraus’s revolutionary novel faced a cold reception when it was published in , but has since become a cult feminist classic. I Love Dick by Author: Emily Gould. In I Love Dick, published in , Chris Kraus, author of Aliens Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, .
I Love Dick, by Chris Kraus. So, this is a '90s feminist classic that's half confessional and half art-and-gender theory. The book is told in a series of letters and journal entries in which Chris Kraus, a not-very-successful maker of experimental art films, falls in unrequited love/obsession with "Dick," a celebrity lecturer/ media. "I Love Dick" tells the story of Chris Kraus, a year-old experimental filmmaker who sees herself as more of an "academic groupie" than an artist. She and her husband. Chris Kraus On 'I Love Dick' "'I Love Dick' happened in real life, but it's not a memoir." In this video, American writer Chris Kraus talks about her iconic feminist novel 'I Love Dick', which has been proclaimed 'the most important book about men and women written in the last century.'.
I Love Dick is a novel composed of love letters written by an eponymous female narrator, Chris Kraus, to a man called Dick (patterned after real-life scholar Dick Hebdige), a blurry figure whose appearance vacillates between the archetypes of literary critic and cowboy. Chris embarks on an epistolary flirtation with Dick after she and her then-husband, French cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer (named and modeled after Kraus’s actual ex-husband) have dinner with him in Pasadena and spend. Chris Kraus’s revolutionary novel faced a cold reception when it was published in , but has since become a cult feminist classic. I Love Dick by Chris Kraus is published by Tuskar Rock. Chris Kraus (b. ) is an American writer and filmmaker. She is widely known for her feminist novel ‘I Love Dick’ (), which the English newspaper The Guardian proclaimed “the best novel written about men and women in the 20 th century”. The novel follows Chris, who falls in love with her husband’s younger colleague Dick, and along with her husband plunges into an art project, with hundreds of pages of love letters and essays on art written to Dick.
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