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Book SynopsisOffering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging.
Trade Review"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice." -- Regina Longo * Film Quarterly *
"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that is bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended." -- G. R. Butters Jr. * Choice *
"A wildly ambitious configuring of contemporary queer cinema that has no less than a holistic revision of cinematic representation on its mind. . . .
Queer Cinema in the World belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who consistently grapples with understanding human difference as a positive quality of social and political life." -- Clayton Dillard * Slant Magazine *
"[A] willingness to attend to the surprising ways and spaces where queer cinema can appear is part of what makes the book so dizzyingly comprehensive and enjoyable. . . . This commitment to searching out queer world cinema’s as yet unthought possibilities of pleasure and intimacy shines through." -- Brandon Kemp * Hong Kong Review of Books *
"Queer Cinema in the World is a work of remarkable capaciousness and intellectual adventure, written in welcome defiance of the scholarly demand for tight focus and narrow specialization. Maximalist rather than minimalist, it offers a wide view that, among its other pleasures, will provide many readers with introductions to neglected films and filmmakers as well as with compelling treatments of works that are now part of the canon of queer cinema."
-- Corey K. Creekmur * Cineaste *
"By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at large." -- Joanna Randall * Journal of Film and Video *
"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued." -- Lindsey Green-Simms * College Literature *
"Theoretically daring. . . . it is not difficult to see [
Queer Cinema in the World] serving as a cornerstone of future scholarship on queer cinema, and the authors should be commended." -- James Hodgson * Screen *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Queer, World, Cinema 1
1. Figures in the World: The Geopolitics of theTranscutlural Queer 35
2. A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space 79
3. Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Narrative, and Queer Public Space 119
4. The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale 167
5. Registers of Belonging: Queer Worldly Affects 211
6. The Emergence of Queer Cinematic Time 259
Notes 305
Bibliography 339
Index 357
