Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one’s sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism.
Daftar Isi
Introduction: What is Queer about Nostalgia? 1. Animated Nostalgia: Invented Authenticity in Arte’s Summer of the Sixties 2. Nostalgic Physique: Displaying Foucauldian Muscles and Celebrating the Male Body in Beefcake 3. Sexing the Past: Communal Exposure and Self Examination in Gay Sex in the 70s 4. Claiming Lost Gay Youth: Todd Haynes’s Dottie Gets Spanked and Velvet Goldmine 5. Boys Want to Have Fun! Carnivalesque Adolescence and Nostalgic Resorts in Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel 6. Reinventing Lesbian Youth in Su Friedrich’s Cinematic Autoqueeroraphy Hide and Seek 7. Uses of Nostalgia in Musical Politicization of Homo/Phobic Myths in Were the World Mine, The Big Gay Musical and Zero Patience 8. Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga’s Nostalgic Yearning for Queer Mythology, Monsters and Martyrs 9. Black Nostalgia: Poetry, Ethnicity and Homoeroticism in Looking for Langston and Brother to Brother Afterword: Queering Nostalgia or Queer Nostalgia?
Tentang Penulis
Gilad Padva is a film and media scholar who focuses on New Queer Cinema, popular culture, visual communications and men’s studies. He is the co-editor of the international collection Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014), and he publishes extensively in international academic journals, international collections, and international encyclopedias. He currently works for the Communication Department at Tel Aviv University, the Open University of Israel, Beit Berl Academic College, and WIZO Haifa Academic College.
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