SCRN20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New Queer Cinema, Unapologetic, Inflectional Phrase
8 Jun 2018
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Lecture 10: new queer cinema
CAN USE 'GAY' OR 'QUEER' IN THE WRITING but not homosexual
A24 studio
• Studio as a new form of auteur
Black cinema
• Emergence of black cinema in 60s important to the next wave of african american directors that
would emeerge
• Cinema by african americans by african americans
• Blacksploitation
• Agit prop techniques -> infl by agitation propaganda device of soviet cinema
Queer politics
• Queer politics and theory born out of the limitations of the gay and lesbian limitation movement
• Queerness challenges essentialist notions of identity
• Relation of resistance to whatever constitutes as normal
• Identity as a social construct -> queer as a resistance to normality
History of queer cinema
• Depictions of gay characters banned under production code era
• Coded characters that could be read in the lines of queer -> pitied, tragic figures, the butt of jokes
or villains
Queer coding
• Characters not explicitly queer but can be read as such
• Disney villains, hitchcock etc
• Homosexuality on screen more or less allusive
• Result from the recognition and articulation of the complex range of queerness
• Queer baiting -> attract queer audiences without alienating conservative audiences
• Bury your gays
New queer cinema
• Cinema of defiance levelled at both homophobic society and tasteful and tolerated gay culture
• Films were unapologetic and alternative in film form
• Male dominated though racially diverse
• During the aids crisis
Queer films now
• Economic trend or embracing queerness?
• Glamorous actresses transforming themselves
• Predominantly white
• Male characters often gender appropriate
Queer denial
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