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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"queer film"”.
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… how can we hypothesize—or critically fabulate—queer material legacies? The first—or earliest extant—American film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material culture, queer identity, film, the Internet and pornography, …
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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film
<p>As an artist and Film Studies student, I saw the capstone option as an opportunity to consolidate academia with the art of filmmaking into one project. This became <em>Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness</em>, an experimental short film written, directed, and edited by me. It is a film …
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Depictions of Queer female characters in contemporary South African documentary film
… lesbians in contemporary local documentary films. In order to do so, the author focuses on two films: Breaking out of the Box (dir. Zethu Matebeni and S’bu Kheswa, 2011) and Difficult Love (dir. Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid, 2010). These films are analysed in the light of a number of …
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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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Spectacularizing the homosexual body: the secret rendezvous among global gay media, local straight women, and the media industry in South Korea
… explanation of the popularity of same-sex themed films in Korea, whilst exploring and delineating relationships among the transnational flow of cultural artifacts (gay mediated texts), local audiences (young Korean women), and the local media industry (Korean film corporations), the result being …