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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
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” is a term I coined back in 1992 for a set of films and videos that constituted a major shift in how to make and think about fillm, life, sexuality, aesthetics, and politics at a time of repression, danger, and death brought on by the AIDS epidemic and repressive political regimes in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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





