screening genders: new queer cinema
Queer ? Cinema of Todd Haynes
Work grounded in feminist theory
Brown university as a reputation for liberal queer politics and aesthetics
Reimagining film at the level of ideology and what it can be productively
Studied under marry anne do anne
Recreating melodramaas in 1950s in a critical and radical lens
Genre is important for haynes
Focus
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5 things new queer cinema defies
Sanctity of the past and time –doing queer things with time and history
The idea that gay or queer is fixed identity
The idea that we should have positive role models – the burden of 'positive' representation creating uncomplicated characters
Defy death – rejecting the sappy made for tv stories about aids
The New Queer Cinema carried the legacies of the eighties as surely as it introduced the hopes and strategies of the nineties
The New Queer Cinema carried the legacies of the eighties as surely as it introduced the hopes and strategies of the nineties
At the same time, gay marriage was neither desirable nor available, let alone legalized, trans identities and stories were not yet emergent, and gay white men still dominated queer crossover culture
context - After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. Fascism B Ruby Rich
The New Queer Cinema comprised works that would become important objects for the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, both attracting congressional condemnation and mobilizing support for a new vision of a queer culture that would shift attitudes forever.
After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. Fascism B Ruby Rich
New queer cinema and todd haynes
Barbie dolls – felt like watching a cartoon
The materiality of film and vhs – it degrades over time
works of film and video feature length and short, experimenting with narrative and gut-punching in message, excited the communities of ... and they proceeded to break out and make an impact on the world at large via film festivals, art-house release, and, eventually, mainstream crossover.
After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. Fascism B Ruby Rich
Superstar: the Karen carpenter story
Showcases themes and interest in filmography
Her use of drumming was interesting denoting her feminity
Use of barbie dolls was symbolic and grounded in feminst analysis
Tension between structure and agency
Foucault and the docile body
Body representative of the state
Obedient
Regimented
Trained
How power
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historical context of new queer cinema:
The democratisation of film and cinema through video and video stores
Context: 90s aids crisis and Reagan in USA
Queer temporality
Short period of time of 'new queer cinema'
B ruby rich – questioning if new queer cinema had run its course
Cinema could be radical and popular, stylish and economically
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