Queer Cinema in the World

by Karl Schoonover

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822362616
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Queer, World, Cinema  1

1. Figures in the World: The Geopolitics of theTranscutlural Queer  35

2. A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space  79

3. Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Narrative, and Queer Public Space  119

4. The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale  167

5. Registers of Belonging: Queer Worldly Affects  211

6. The Emergence of Queer Cinematic Time  259

Notes  305

Bibliography  339

Index  357

What People are Saying About This

Shohini Ghosh

"In a self-admittedly 'risky venture' Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt bring together three deeply contested terms—'queer,' 'cinema,' and 'world' to reconfigure—successfully and elegantly—our imagination of queer cinema’s ongoing project of conjuring different worlds. The book opens the door to a diversity of queer cinematic projects that while moving through the circuits of the global, carry with them their particular histories, cartographies, poetics, politics, aesthetics, spatio-temporalities, and erotics. A most intellectually audacious work."

Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms - Patricia White

"As the first substantive text on contemporary global queer cinema, Queer Cinema in the World transforms current debates in world cinema while bringing a welcome disciplinary specificity to queer theory's musings on cinema and transnational queer representability. Provocative, generative, and teachable, Queer Cinema in the World excites the reader with its scope and smartness."

Editorial Reviews

"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued."

College Literature - Lindsey Green-Simms

"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice."

Film Quarterly - Regina Longo

"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."

Cineaste - Corey K. Creekmur

"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."

Slant Magazine - Clayton Dillard

"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 is bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended."

Choice - G. R. Butters Jr.

"[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."

Hong Kong Review of Books - Brandon Kemp

"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."

Screen - James Hodgson

"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."

Journal of Film and Video - Joanna Randall

"In a self-admittedly 'risky venture' Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt bring together three deeply contested terms—'queer,' 'cinema,' and 'world' to reconfigure—successfully and elegantly—our imagination of queer cinema’s ongoing project of conjuring different worlds. The book opens the door to a diversity of queer cinematic projects that while moving through the circuits of the global, carry with them their particular histories, cartographies, poetics, politics, aesthetics, spatio-temporalities, and erotics. A most intellectually audacious work."

Shohini Ghosh

"As the first substantive text on contemporary global queer cinema, Queer Cinema in the World transforms current debates in world cinema while bringing a welcome disciplinary specificity to queer theory's musings on cinema and transnational queer representability. Provocative, generative, and teachable, Queer Cinema in the World excites the reader with its scope and smartness."

Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms - Patricia White