"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 moreis bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended."
G. R. Butters Jr.
Choice
"A wildly ambitious configuring of contemporary queer cinema that has no less than a holistic revision of cinematic representation on its mind. . . . Queer Cinema in the World belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who consistently grapples with understanding human difference as a positive quality of social and political life."
Clayton Dillard
Slant Magazine
"[A] willingness to attend to the surprising ways and spaces where queer cinema can appear is part of what makes the book so dizzyingly comprehensive and enjoyable. . . . This commitment to searching out queer world cinema’s as yet unthought possibilities of pleasure and intimacy shines through."
Brandon Kemp
Hong Kong Review of Books
"Queer Cinema in the World is a work of remarkable capaciousness and intellectual adventure, written in welcome defiance of the scholarly demand for tight focus and narrow specialization. Maximalist rather than minimalist, it offers a wide view that, among its other pleasures, will provide many readers with introductions to neglected films and filmmakers as well as with compelling treatments of works that are now part of the canon of queer cinema."
Corey K. Creekmur
Cineaste
"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 large."
Joanna Randall
Journal of Film and Video
"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued."
Lindsey Green-Simms
College Literature
"Theoretically daring. . . . it is not difficult to see [Queer Cinema in the World] serving as a cornerstone of future scholarship on queer cinema, and the authors should be commended."
James Hodgson
Screen
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