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Queer Cinema in the World
Karl Schoonover
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Description for Queer Cinema in the World
Paperback. Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging. Num Pages: 408 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; APFA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 208 x 29. Weight in Grams: 618.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362616
SKU
V9780822362616
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About Karl Schoonover
Karl Schoonover is Associate Professor and Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and the author of Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema. Rosalind Galt is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London and the author of Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image.
Reviews for Queer Cinema in the World
Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued.
Lindsey Green-Simms
College Literature
By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at ... Read more
Lindsey Green-Simms
College Literature
By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at ... Read more