A meticulous, generous and detailed assessment of Butler's writing on film, which is ultimately something else as well: a profoundly political call for the exposure, re-evaluation and reworking of the conditions under which not only films, but their academic critical assessment, are made.

Joanna Walsh, Author of 'Hotel' (2017), 'Break.up' (2018), and 'Amateurs!' (2025)

This fiercely argued account of Butlerian spectatorship examines Butler's career-long rapport with the ethico-aesthetic field of subjectivity and embodiment. Avoiding a catch-all framework, Gürbüz carefully studies Butler's references to specific films, to re-discover how cinema contributed to their “egalitarian imaginary”.

Cüneyt Çakirlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and the Turkish co-translator of 'Judith Butler's Bodies That Matter' (1993), published as 'Bela Bedenler' (2014).