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New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism - New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism
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This paper examines New Queer Cinema, a term coined in 1992 by B. Ruby Rich to describe a cycle of films.
| Title | New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism |
| Alternative Title | Film and the critique of neoliberalism |
| advisor | Theresa (Terri) L. |
| advisor | Geller |
| advisor | Geller, Theresa. |
| Index Date | 2012 |
| Date Created | 2012-03 |
| Publisher | Grinnell College |
| Type of Resource | text |
| Genre | research paper |
| Digital Origin | born digital |
| Digital Extent | 10 p. |
| Media Type | application/pdf |
| Medium | pdf, doc |
| description | In 1992, B. Ruby Rich coined the term New Queer Cinema to describe a cycle of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s that broke with conventional cinematic practices to show rethought subjectivities, generic subversions, and revised histories. New Queer Cinema, however, saw little of the same bursts of innovative directors and their films after 1992. This lag in revolutionary filmmaking left many evaluating queer cinema’s current state, even mourning the supposed end of New Queer Cinema. In this paper, I argue that queer filmmaking is not void of revolutionary potential; it is more that the driving force behind these films has changed. Instead of acting in opposition to a conservative government that failed to respond to the AIDS crisis, current queer work resists the normalizing effects of today’s neoliberal government. A cycle study of recent queer films reveals this driving revolutionary force. |
| Language | English |
| Topic | Queer theory |
| Topic | Film criticism |
| Topic | Neoliberalism |
| Topic | AIDS (Disease) |
| Keyword | Assimilation |
| Keyword | New Queer Cinema |
| Keyword | AIDS crisis |
| Keyword | Queer theory |
| Keyword | Antisociality |
| Classification | PN |
| Related Item | Digital Grinnell -- grinnell-collection:1 |
| Related Item | Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository |
| Related Item | Student Scholarship |
| Identifier (local) | grinnell:10510 |
| Access Condition | Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.). |
| Identifier (hdl) | http://hdl.handle.net/11084/10510 |
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| author | Laura |
| author | Stamm |
| author | Stamm, Laura |
| Title | New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism |
| Alternative Title | Film and the critique of neoliberalism |
| advisor | Theresa (Terri) L. |
| advisor | Geller |
| advisor | Geller, Theresa. |
| Index Date | 2012 |
| Date Created | 2012-03 |
| Type of Resource | Presentation |
| Digital Origin | born digital |
| Extent | 10 p. |
| Medium | pdf, doc |
| Language | English |
| Topic | Queer theory |
| Topic | Film criticism |
| Topic | Neoliberalism |
| Topic | AIDS (Disease) |
| Keyword | Assimilation |
| Keyword | New Queer Cinema |
| Keyword | AIDS crisis |
| Keyword | Queer theory |
| Keyword | Antisociality |
| Related Item | Digital Grinnell |
| Related Item | Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository |
| Identifier (local) | grinnell:3419 |
| Access Condition | Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.). |
| Identifier (hdl) | http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3419 |