Queer Cinema in the World

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Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt reimagine the scope of queer film studies. The authors move beyond the gay art cinema canon to consider a broad range of films from Chinese lesbian drama and Swedish genderqueer documentary to Bangladeshi melodrama and Bolivian activist video. Schoonover and Galt make a case for the centrality of queerness in cinema and trace how queer cinema circulates around the globe–institutionally via film festivals, online consumption, and human rights campaigns, but also affectively in the production of a queer sensorium. In this account, cinema creates a uniquely potent mode of queer worldliness, one that disrupts normative ways of being in the world and forges revised modes of belonging. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments ......Page 10 Introduction: Queer, World, Cinema ......Page 14 Chapter 1. Figures in the World: The Geopolitics of the Transcultural Queer ......Page 48 Chapter 2. A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space ......Page 92 Chapter 3. Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Narrative, and Queer Public Space ......Page 132 Chapter 4. The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale ......Page 180 Chapter 5. Registers of Belonging: Queer Worldly Affects......Page 224 Chapter 6. The Emergence of Queer Cinematic Time......Page 272 Notes ......Page 318 Bibliography ......Page 352 A......Page 370 B......Page 373 C......Page 374 D......Page 376 E......Page 378 F......Page 379 G......Page 380 H......Page 382 I......Page 385 J......Page 387 L......Page 388 M......Page 389 N......Page 391 P......Page 393 Q......Page 395 R......Page 397 S......Page 398 T......Page 401 U......Page 403 W......Page 405 Z......Page 406