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Title: Best In Show 2000


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Best In Show 2000
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Waiting for Guffman (1996)
  • Best In Show (2000)
  • A Mighty Wind (2003)
  • For Your Consideration (2006)

2
http//www.westminsterkennelclub.org/
3
A conformation dog show
  • Dogs are evaluated on how well they conform to
    certain breed standards

4
1877 first Westminster show
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1877 first Westminster show
  • Westminster pre-dates the invention of the
    light bulb, the automobile, and the zipper the
    building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the
    Washington Monument and manned air flightl and
    the establishment of the World Series. Since
    Westminster held its first show 127 years ago,
    there have been 24 men elected president and 12
    states have joined the union. (westminsterkennelc
    lub.org)

6
1875, the Mayflower
  • Buck Laughlin scrambles separate myths of
    American identity, the Mayflower, Christopher
    Columbus, different permutations of pedigree.
  • The canine contestants and their owners are as
    wondrously diverse as the great country that has
    bred them.
  • (from hollywoodjesus.com)

7
  • Pedigree vs assortment
  • exclusivity vs diversity
  • democratic vs aristocratic
  • few vs many
  • exceptional vs exemplary

8
Assortment
  • The Flecks
  • The Swans
  • Vanderhoof and Donlan
  • Cabot and Cummings
  • Pepper
  • the real in performance, rather than story
  • cf Boogie Nights, Boys Dont Cry

9
Sexuality
  • territorial, competitive, hierarchical
  • and/or
  • specialised, aesthetic, niche

10
Competition vs Community
  • Queer Eye For the Straight Guy
  • American Bitch
  • Sexuality A Commodity?

11
  • The arena, space of theatrical performance, a
    place of exemplarity
  • Best in Show a category of exceptionality

12
Catalogue People
13
A Trois
  • ch1
  • Film opens with Beatrice on the Couch, Freudian,
    uncanny, neurosis circulates beyond human bodies
    and lived experience, into décor, performance
  • Sleight of hand did she say anything
  • Triangle analyst and patients vs our position
    watching the interviews, we are like the
    analyst (or like Beatrice?).

14
  • Ch3
  • 1875 Great grandfather Milbank and the Mayflower
  • Foucault 1870
  • Standards a bite standard but not a number of
    teeth standard
  • repressive hypothesis, incitement to discourse
  • Foucauldian arena vs Freudian domestic space

15
  • Sexuality choreographed around instances of
    performance, milieu of domesticity, scenes of
    encounter
  • Two styles in the film, the interview and the
    stadium
  • Interview as domestic, psychoanalytic, conjugal
  • The Show as split screen.

16
Scott and Stefan, flâneurs(cosmopolitan, gay)
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  • Mockumentary
  • faux documentary
  • largely improvised
  • the real in performance, rather than story
  • cf Boogie Nights, Boys Dont Cry
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