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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Queer Cinema"”.
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Contemporary French Queer Cinema: Explicit Sex and the Politics of Normalization
This thesis examines how recent French queer films may mirror, interrogate and engage with sexual politics in France. The key political changes include the 1999 Pacte Civil de Solidarité legislation and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013. The thesis focuses on French queer films which …
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Framing Sex and Spatiality in French Queer Cinema: Nolot, Dieutre, Guiraudie
… through the lens of contemporary French queer cinema. While film and media studies has recently seen the critical ascendance of spatial, embodied and proprioceptive theory on the one hand, and a burgeoning interest in queer sexualities, counterpublics and relational practices on the …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
During the 1990s Queer Cinema exploded onto the independent film scene in North America. Most film festivals at the time featured several queer films that broke the boundaries of film-making techniques, conventional narration, and what was considered acceptable by mainstream audiences. By openly …
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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film
… me. It is a film influenced by early avant-garde cinema, German expressionism, and film noir. Composed of pieces of unrelated footage and featuring an ambiguous, non-linear, and mostly silent narrative, the editing of the film prompted me to ask myself questions about its genre. Its hybridity made …
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Documenting gay identity through the cinematic lens an investigation of representations of South African gay identities through film
… looks to delve into a rounded exploration of a queer cinematic culture in the post-apartheid era. Through an appreciation of South African cinematic history, the socio-political seems intertwined in the very fibre of this cinematic history; with factors such as race, class, wealth distribution, …
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From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema
… explores gender roles in Turkish-German Migrant Cinema as created by two directors, Kutlug Ataman and Fatih Akin. Informed by its predecessors, Yilmaz Guney and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who were among the first to explore the marginalization of immigrants in post-War Germany, the current …
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Queering the Real: Antisociality and the impossible nothing of queer
This project charts a logic of queer antisociality along literary, cinematic, and theoretical works. Reading across a collection of textual case studies from Gertrude Stein, Herman Melville, and Samuel Beckett, as well as films from Derek Jarman and David Cronenberg, this thesis thinks through …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
*Queer Tropical Frames* explores the convergence of queer theory, decolonial thinking, and film studies in Latin America. Situated within this relatively unexplored intersection, this thesis draws critical attention to the place of queerness in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American …