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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. 

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