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Queer Nostalgia In Cinema And Pop Culture Hardcover

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Gilad Padva
Book Description
Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture explores popular representations 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, celebrating queer counterculture, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism. In particular, Queer Nostalgia engages in a critical discussion of nostalgia-in-motion, the significance of 'femininostlagia' (gay men's effeminate nostalgia), the intricate relationship between queer nostalgia, martyrdom and emergent queer mythology, the contribution of nostalgia to 'autoqueerography' (queer autobiography inspired by women's dissident autobiography or 'autogynography'), and the interrelationship between ethnic and queer nostalgias.
ISBN-10
1137266333
ISBN-13
9781137266330
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
29 Jan 2014
Number of Pages
254
About the Author
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
Editorial Review
This is an original, timely, and important intervention in the field of Queer Studies, providing a very convincing argument for the essentially queer nature of nostalgia, nostalgic practices, and nostalgia-inspired cultural production. It is a welcome addition to the body of literature on and around these issues. - Elisabetta Girelli, University of St Andrews, UK