Queering Jewishness – Jewish Queerness. Discursive Constructions of Gender and ‘Jewish Difference’ in (Audio-)Visual Media

从当代(视听)媒体(Lowry 1999，Dyer 2003)中哪些性别编码的犹太形象正在被(重新)制作和协商的问题出发，我的研究项目从犹太视觉文化研究的跨学科角度探索了中间性、犹太性和酷儿之间的交叉关系。在以话语分析为导向的研究(Stiegler 2014，Landwehr 2018)的框架内，特别强调了“犹太人差异”(Silverman 2011)的历史影响的性别划分以及犹太人所体现的越轨、变态的性行为的反犹太主义思想。借助差异化的媒介分析，并结合传媒学、视觉研究、犹太文化研究、性别研究和酷儿研究的理论框架，本文展示了在当代视觉媒体中，“犹太人”是如何被编码为“双重他者”的，从而被标记为规范偏差和酷儿。这种边缘化的多层次纠缠需要在其社会文化影响以及其历史嵌入和当代宣言的背景下进行探索。我的项目旨在解决在(视听)视频媒体中揭示、可视化和暴露性别编码的文化犹太人身份之间的复杂和有问题的关系中变得明显的另一个过程。鉴于当前的社会政治发展显示出日益增长的反犹太主义和反性别主义，对(视听)媒体中关于犹太人性别差异的表现和谈判的交叉分析似乎具有特别的重要性和相关性。因此，该项目的目的是批判性地反思分析类别性别和酷儿对媒体的结构作用--在(视听)媒体中论述(再现)犹太人的差异。此外，该项目还旨在分析如何、何时以及在何种情况下这些基于性别的犹太身份代码被激怒和削弱。该项目的社会政治影响在于对反复出现的歧视主题和身份归属进行批判性分析，这些主题和身份归属(重新)在显性和隐性反犹太主义之间的紧张领域产生不平等和排斥。通过揭示脱节和不和谐以及质疑(异类)规范归属，该项目还有助于对霸权结构的批评，以及对反犹太主义和边缘化的“犹太性”概念的修正。

Departing from the question, which gender-coded images (Lowry 1999, Dyer 2003) of Jewishness are being (re-)produced and negotiated in contemporary (audio-)visual media, my research project explores the intersectional relationship between mediality, Jewishness and queerness from the interdisciplinary perspective of Jewish Visual Culture Studies. Within the framework of a discourse-analytically oriented study (Stiegler 2014, Landwehr 2018), a special emphasis is placed on the historically far-reaching gendering of ‘Jewish difference’ (Silverman 2011) and the anti-Semetic idea of a transgressive, deviant sexuality embodied by Jews. With the help of differentiated media analyses and by combining a theoretical framework from Media Studies, Visual Studies, Jewish Cultural Studies, Gender- as well as Queer Studies it is shown, how ‘being Jewish’ is coded as the ‘double Other’ in contemporary visual media and thereby marked as norm-deviant and queer. This marginalizing multi-layered entanglement needs to be explored in the context of its socio-cultural implications as well as its historical embeddings and contemporary manifestations.My project aims to address this othering process that becomes apparent in a complex and problematic relationship between revealing, visualizing and exposing gender-coded cultural Jewish identities in (audio-)visual media. In the light of current socio-political developments, which reveal a growing anti-Semitism as well as antigenderism, the intersectional analysis of the representation and negotiation of gendered Jewish difference in (audio-)visual media seems to be of particular importance and relevance. The project thus has the purpose to critically reflect on the structuring function of the analytical categories gender and queer for the media-discursive (re-)production of Jewish difference in (audio-)visual media. In addition, the project also aims at analyzing how, when, and under which circumstances these gendered codes of Jewish identity are being irritated and subverted.The socio-political impact of the project lies in the critical analysis of recurring discriminatory motifs and identity ascriptions that (re-)produce inequalities and exclusions in the field of tension between explicit and implicit anti-Semitism. By revealing disjunctions and dissonances as well as questioning (hetero-)normative attributions, the project also contributes to a critique of hegemonic power structures as well as to the revision of both anti-Semitic and marginalizing conceptions of 'Jewishness'.