Introduction to Queer Studies Romesburg Syllabus 2024 (original) (raw)

"A New Queer Cinema Renaissance." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 1(2): 215-229

This article argues that we are currently experiencing a renaissance of New Queer Cinema (NQC). The original NQC occurred in the early 1990s, which saw a wave of queer films that were successful on the mainstream international film festival circuit, at venues such as Cannes and Sundance. Queer film scholars, such as Michele Aaron and B. Ruby Rich, have argued that films like Paris is Burning (Livingston, 1991), Poison (Haynes, 1991) and Swoon (Kalin, 1992) were united by their sense of defiance. They represented the marginalized within the contemporary LGBT communities. This article looks at recent films such as Weekend (Haigh, 2011), Stranger by the Lake (Guiraudie, 2013), Appropriate Behaviour (Akhavan, 2014), Pariah (Rees, 2011) and the work of Xavier Dolan as being successful queer-themed films that meet the criteria outlined by scholars of NQC. Their success will be determined by their representation in both queer and non-queer film festival circuits and beyond. They respond to the state of contemporary independent cinema and utilize film form to allow for the accessibility of their queer characters. In their own way, they are defiant against mainstream queer representations and demonstrate a resurgence of films that service a community that is in need of queer intellectual stimulation.

Queer Or LGBTQ+: On The Question Of Inclusivity In Queer Cinema Studies

Asked to write a survey of queer cinema studies for undergraduates, this essay resulted from my own queer cinema class's questions about the differences between queer and LGBTQ and our conversations about the desire for normality in the wake of the recent marriage equality decision by the US supreme Court in June 2015. This is the essay I wish I had to begin my class.

Queering Gender, Art & Culture in an Age of Media Convergence

Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology , 2016

Cultural examinations focusing on the spheres of the Fine Arts and popular media forms – within sociology, gender studies and cultural studies – have primarily focused on how gender roles affect the ability to fully participate in all aspects of culture, or how media representations have promoted essentialist and heteronormative narratives and visual imagery. Much of the scholarship thus far has looked at culture and gender from a traditional binary perspective (high/low, male/female, production/reception). However, the recent emergence of the interdisciplinary field of queer studies (within the last decade) and the study of post-internet participatory media culture(s) offer new conceptual and empirical terrain to explore gender and sexuality. Radical feminist and queer media forms challenge us to reconsider the creation, distribution and reception of culture, and present opportunities to resist, and in some cases pervert, dominant narratives, policies and ways of seeing.