![]() ![]() Craig Watkins, Representing: Hip-Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 197. ![]() Speculating on the relationship between black popular culture and theories of sexuality more generally, the essay suggests that the glass closet must also figure into scholarly assessments of the emergence of the “down low,” a term that typically describes black men who have sex with men but do not identify as gay, bisexual, or queer. Craig Watkins's notion of the “ghettocentric imagination” and Eve Sedgwick's argument on the processes of epistemological production structured by the metaphor of the closet, this essay examines the relationships between and among black popular culture, the “closet,” and the maintenance of certain definitions of “race,” “gender,” and “sexuality” it argues for a deeper understanding of the “glass closet,” a space of confinement and hypervisibility, as a structuring metaphor and trope in representations of black sexuality. ![]() With Kelly's new album Buffet landing next month, the promised new chapters should hopefully be making an appearance not long after.In the summer of 2005, Robert Sylvester Kelly released the first five chapters of his twenty-two-episode magnum opus Trapped in the Closet, garnering a great deal of attention both from media critics and popular audiences. Sounds impossibly ambitious, yet we'd never expect anything less from Trapped in the Closet. As the last chapter saw Sylvester and Twan (Eric Lane) evading a gang of mobsters by crashing onto the set of Jerry Springer-esque talk show titled 'Out of the Closet', the next will take place entirely within that show and, according to Kelly, will manage to feature appearances from every character of the series so far. Speaking to Complex, the artist revealed 40 more chapters have already been both written and recorded now simply awaiting filming and release. Last month even witnessed a New Jersey theater host an orchestra-scored screening of the series as their Halloween event.Īccording to Kelly, the saga's indeed far from over. It's a phenomenon obsessively parodied over its lifetime, from South Park's Scientology-twist on the Trapped in the Closet title to "Weird Al" Yankovic's spoof track "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" (surely, a Weird Al song is the definitive sign something's made into the cultural mainstream). ![]()
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