{"id":2184,"date":"2016-03-28T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:48:56","slug":"book-review-ive-heard-the-mermaids-singing-by-julia-mendenhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/book-review-ive-heard-the-mermaids-singing-by-julia-mendenhall\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: I&#8217;ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, by Julia Mendenhall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mendenhall-Mermaids-Singing-146x206.jpg\" alt=\"Mendenhall Mermaids Singing\" width=\"146\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mendenhall-Mermaids-Singing-146x206.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mendenhall-Mermaids-Singing-338x475.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mendenhall-Mermaids-Singing-149x210.jpg 149w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mendenhall-Mermaids-Singing.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><strong>Mendenhall, Julia. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/ive-heard-the-mermaids-singing\/oclc\/892301662&#038;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve Heard the Mermaids Singing<\/a><\/em>. Arsenal Pulp. 149p. $14.95. PB. 978-1-55152-564-8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia Mendenhall?s smart book tells the deep story of a groundbreaking Canadian film, in which, the author argues, the filmmaker produces a study of queer theory before the term even existed in the academy. 1987?s <em>I heard the Mermaids Singing<\/em>, by Patricia Rozema, mixes fantasy elements with a photographer?s journeys around Toronto, a journey that follows a sexual and polymorphous perverse awakening on the part of this photographer. Using in-depth original interviews with the creators, original production documents, and as well as a vast yet insightful use of existing film criticism on this lesbian classic, which took Cannes by storm in 1987. Features clear, expressive photographs. Recommended for collections with queer, Canadian, and\/or feminist film and cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Joel A. Nichols, Librarian<br \/>\nPhiladelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mendenhall, Julia. I&#8217;ve Heard the Mermaids Singing. Arsenal Pulp. 149p. $14.95. PB. 978-1-55152-564-8. Julia Mendenhall?s smart book tells the deep story of a groundbreaking Canadian film, in which, the author argues, the filmmaker produces a study of queer theory before the term even existed in the academy. 1987?s I heard the Mermaids Singing, by Patricia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,220,19],"tags":[221,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}