[PDF] Experimental Film And Queer Materiality eBook

Author : Juan Antonio Suárez
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Experimental film
ISBN : 9780197567012

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"This book shows that experimental cinema revealed a peculiar latency of the modern everyday that can be called queer materiality. Queer materiality designates a sense of queer possibility in modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors; it also refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience. Experimental film offers a rich archive of queer material engagements. This book studies various queer material configurations in the work of well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, or Jack Smith, but it also explores under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl or Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, the book shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, mood-enhancers such as amphetamine, film grain, or noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. The book's inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world directly resonates with a growing ecological consciousness and with current concerns about the definition and reach of the human in a universe of intricate post-human entanglements"--

Author : Juan Antonio Suárez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0197566995

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Experimental Film and Queer Materiality studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, and Jack Smith as well as under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández.

Author : Ronald Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0190878010

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The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.

Author : Daniel Humphrey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292743769

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One of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers—indeed one of its most important and influential artists—Ingmar Bergman and his films have been examined from almost every possible perspective, including their remarkable portrayals of women and their searing dramatizations of gender dynamics. Curiously however, especially considering the Swedish filmmaker’s numerous and intriguing comments on the subject, no study has focused on the undeniably queer characteristics present throughout this nominally straight auteur’s body of work; indeed, they have barely been noted. Queer Bergman makes a bold and convincing argument that Ingmar Bergman’s work can best be thought of as profoundly queer in nature. Using persuasive historical evidence, including Bergman’s own on-the-record (though stubbornly ignored) remarks alluding to his own homosexual identifications, as well as the discourse of queer theory, Daniel Humphrey brings into focus the director’s radical denunciation of heteronormative values, his savage and darkly humorous deconstructions of gender roles, and his work’s trenchant, if also deeply conflicted, attacks on homophobically constructed forms of patriarchic authority. Adding an important chapter to the current discourse on GLBT/queer historiography, Humphrey also explores the unaddressed historical connections between post–World War II American queer culture and a concurrently vibrant European art cinema, proving that particular interrelationship to be as profound as the better documented associations between gay men and Hollywood musicals, queer spectators and the horror film, lesbians and gothic fiction, and others.

Author : Wendy Pearson
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1551524236

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A Queer Film Classic on the controversial, funny 1993 film musical about AIDS that refutes the legend of Patient Zero.

Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : Theatre Arts Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415319867

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Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss: Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production, initially practised by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture Reception - considering three specific historical case-studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland to Star Trek. The Reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory and allows students and scholars of the subject to draw their own conclusions in their studies.

Author : Karl Schoonover
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822362463

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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.

Author : Erin Christine Tobin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2010
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ABSTRACT: Cinematic representations of queer female sexuality prior to the 1970s relied on codes and innuendos to (mis)represent lesbian characters and emphasize their "Otherness," leaving the lesbian on-screen virtually non-existent. The 1970s saw an emergence of explicit lesbianism on screen in films by lesbian feminist avant-garde filmmakers, as well as the development of a new feminist film theory. This paper examines how experimental and narrative films from three decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) represent lesbian sexuality and work to reconceptualize the lesbian representation and spectatorship through destabilizing, reappropriating, or queering the gaze.

Author : Emily Holland
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Deviant behavior in motion pictures
ISBN :

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This thesis interrogates representations of gender and the relationship between gender and the body through a close-textual analysis of examples of contemporary extreme cinema. Extreme cinema refers to a wave of films largely after the turn of the millennium in which the body is shown in graphic states of suffering and/or sex and violence are explicitly merged to provoke a visceral response from spectators. This analysis contributes to the relatively small body of work on extreme cinema specifically but draws from both psychoanalysis and phenomenology in discovering how through the presentation of the body in its most material form, these films present an acknowledgement of gendered binary oppositions in accordance with psychoanalytic interpretations from scholars such as Laura Mulvey, Barbara Creed and Carol Clover. At the same time these systems of differentiation are undermined when we approach them from a phenomenological perspective. Through this framework the analysis incorporates work from Vivian Sobchack and Silvia Stoller, both of whom draw from Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The analysis does not assign greater interpretive value to either framework but highlights them as a complementary pairing in observing how these extreme films present us with a re-interpretation of the body and its relationship to gender. Analysed through filmic components of space/setting, identification, temporality and narrative, these films unveil a universal objectivity of the material body, an objectivity that is shared not only between male and female but between humans, animals and objects. Through the fracturing of these differentiating systems we can begin to re-interpret the role of the body and critically interrogate the relationship between the body and cultural markers of differentiation.

Author : Jackie Stacey
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415384308

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Contains articles published in "Screen" between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period during which queer studies and the 'New Queer Cinema' flourished. This work addresses issues of bodies and technologies, as well as reprinting the debate, spanning several issues of the journal, about the 'queer' movie "Boys Don't Cry"