Queer Cinema in the World

by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt reimagine the scope of queer film studies. The authors move beyond the gay art cinema canon to consider a broad range of films from Chinese lesbian drama and Swedish genderqueer documentary to Bangladeshi melodrama and Bolivian activist video. Schoonover and Galt make a case for the centrality of queerness in cinema and trace how queer cinema circulates around the globe–institutionally via film festivals, online consumption, and human rights campaigns, but also affectively in the production of a queer sensorium. In this account, cinema creates a uniquely potent mode of queer worldliness, one that disrupts normative ways of being in the world and forges revised modes of belonging.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, LGBT

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Madelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

"For us, cinema is never simply a question of content: queerness must be located in the imaginary of the apparatus as much as in the imaginary of the image. (...). What matters most is how the image allows the two queer people to share a memory that was otherwise inaccessible. The particular spaces, desires, and intimacies -- virtual and real, remote and local -- enabled by the apparatus ignite the potential of queer cinema"

[Mills College Library]

791.43653 S3729 2016