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The most striking effect of new queer cinema has been its intervention into this process of disovowal so intrinstic to mainstream spectatorshio  

Arakki

• Despondent teen films 

• Punk ethos 

• Queer ambiguity of characters 

• Nihilistic teen apocalyptic trilogy  

Structure, operation of film, how they articulate self and other ect 

Aids:

• 'epidemic of signification' 

• Cultural meanings produced  

• HIV as a retrovirus which requires modern technology to understand ect  

• Turning the body against itself and disrupting  

Zero patience as a queer political critique  

• Direct rebuttal to randy shilts book about early years of aids  

•  Trope that individuals with disease would try to spread it  

Act up and direct action politics  

• Direct action 

• Speaking back to misreporting or stereotypes  

• Speaking back to the notin of 'sympathetic victim'  

 Superstar is interested in Karen Carpenter’s biography in these terms, and in the irony of using a “shrinking” star to take on the burden of “embodying” feminine visibility.  

Superstar’s investment in critique of genres and character types does not circumvent its conveyance of the sexist notion that mothers are often the worst, albeit unwitting, purveyors of patriarchal ideology