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I Know You Are, but What Am I?: On Pee-wee Herman.
・ISBN 978-1-5179-1828-6 paper US$ 10.00
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| 著者・編者 | McKinney, Cait, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Forerunners: Ideas First) |
| 出版社 | (University of Minnesota Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2024 |
| ページ数 | 92 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-22284＞ |
解説
How Pee-wee and his playhouse help us reimagine our relationships to technology
I Know You Are, but What Am I? explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of Pee-wee's Playhouse. This children's show-that was also for adults-ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies.
Cait McKinney shows how three defining scenes from the show inform, and even foretell and challenge, our present moment: the playhouse as an alternative precursor to networked smart homes that foregrounds caring and ethical relationships between humans and technologies; a reparative retelling of Reubens's career-wrecking 1991 arrest for indecent exposure inside a Florida adult film theater as part of an AIDS-phobic, antigay sting operation; and worn-out, Talking Pee-wee dolls and their broken afterlives on eBay and YouTube.
McKinney looks at how queer people who were children in the 1980s remember and relate to Pee-wee now, showing that the moral panic about sexuality, gender, and children from the past can help us refute anti-trans and anti-queer political movements organized today.