Overview
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Gender and Rock
Professor Mary Kearney’s Gender and Rock course and associated public screenings begins with this popular film adaption of the late-1990s off-Broadway sensation written, directed, and starring John Cameron Mitchell, a previous guest speaker at Notre Dame. Hedwig, an East German rock frontwoman, survives a botched sex change operation. Subsequently, she meets and begins dating Tommy (another rock musical name for the ages), a younger singer she mentors. Tommy, though, rips off Hedwig’s music and leaves her in the dust. Not to be outdone (or forgotten), Hedwig pulls together her backup band, the Angry Inch, and crisscrosses the map as they chase Tommy’s tour.
