1. Does "representing the ambiguity of these black bodies" mean "representing ambiguous (more abstract and less form-based) scenes of these black bodies"?
2. Does "it" refers to "blackness"?
3. Does "an incorporative space" mean "an participating space in which the viewers can also participate"?
Context:
Less overtly homosexual but nonetheless homosocial is Steve McQueen’s Bear, 1993, in which two black men wrestle, the activity taking on overtones of a relational eroticism rather than the exotic hypermasculinity associated with the commodification of images of black sportsmen. Importantly, McQueen’s video operates on a formal level which, rather than simply representing the ambiguity of these black bodies, generates a phenomenological space in which their bodies seem to extend into the space of the viewer. The camerawork and editing create a dynamic space that impinges on the viewer’s physicality, so that one loses the distance that might normally be implied by the framing of a fight. This phenomenological presentation of blackness in which it becomes an incorporative space is something that McQueen extended into later work, in which black bodies are shown in documentary narratives that make us question our implications in histories and economies of race.
catttt 1. Does "representing the ambiguity of these black bodies" mean "representing ambiguous (more abstract and less form-based) scenes of these black bodies"? I don't think so.
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catttt1. Does "representing the ambiguity of these black bodies" mean "representing ambiguous (more abstract and less form-based) scenes of these black bodies"?
I don't think so. I think she is referring to hypermasculinity vs. homosexuality.
catttt2. Does "it" refers to "blackness"?
Yes.
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