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Cherub

Abstract

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Cherub is a 73 minute narrative film centred around a fat, single man named Harvey who comes across a gay magazine for “big men and their admirers” and decides to create an erotic pinup photo to be their “Cherub of the Month”. The film is almost entirely free of dialogue, and is made up predominantly of long, locked off shots that work to create a quiet but detailed tableau of this man’s life. Through both the narrative, the form, as well as the production of the film itself, I seek to explore the ways that image making can be a space of agency, desire and tension for fat, queer men.

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Shears, Devin
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Greyson, John

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
Language dc:language
en

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42504
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/42504

Chain of custody

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Shears, Devin. Cherub. 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42504