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Queer Cinema in the World
Karl Schoonover
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Description for Queer Cinema in the World
Hardback. 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: 162 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 706.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362463
SKU
V9780822362463
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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
"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice."
Regina Longo
Film Quarterly
"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that ... Read more
Regina Longo
Film Quarterly
"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that ... Read more