: JoAnne C. Juett, David Jones
: Coming Out to the Mainstream New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
: 9781443824477
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: CHF 94.80
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: Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
: English
Coming Out to the Mainstream is a collection of essays written from a range of perspectives from scholar to film producer who seek to contextualize and reframe the New Queer Cinema phenomenon in a comparatively different cultural and political context of the 21st century-decades after Stonewall, the emergence of the HIV-AIDS crisis, and the gay marriage movement. These essays examine whether and how the narrative styles, themes, and ideological concerns of New Queer Cinema (NQC) have been mainstreamed-rendered familiar as broad points of interest in popular culture of the 21st century, yet still productively challenging a queer-phobic cultural climate, and providing an incisive set of visual representations and ideological constructs that can help inform continuing contestations over queerness in academic, political, artistic, and cultural contexts. Most importantly these essays situate themselves in the 21st century as an attempt to assess what might be seen as a nascent reemergence of the movement, a second wave of NQC that holds potential for influence beyond the original limits of an independent film audience, critics, and the academy.