Peter A. Jackson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888083046
- eISBN:
- 9789882207325
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083046.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and ...
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The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and have a diversity, social presence, and historical depth that set them apart from the queer cultures of many neighbouring societies. The first years of the twenty-firsy century have marked a significant transition moment for all of Thailand's LGBT cultures, with a multidimensional expansion in the geographical extent, media presence, economic importance, political impact, social standing, and cultural relevance of Thai queer communities. This book analyzes the roles of the market and media—especially cinema and the Internet—in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatization of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early twenty-first century, processes of global queering are leading to a growing Asianization of Bangkok's queer cultures. The book traces Bangkok's emergence as a central focus of an expanding regional network linking gay, lesbian, and transgender communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other rapidly developing East and Southeast Asian societies.Less
The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and have a diversity, social presence, and historical depth that set them apart from the queer cultures of many neighbouring societies. The first years of the twenty-firsy century have marked a significant transition moment for all of Thailand's LGBT cultures, with a multidimensional expansion in the geographical extent, media presence, economic importance, political impact, social standing, and cultural relevance of Thai queer communities. This book analyzes the roles of the market and media—especially cinema and the Internet—in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatization of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early twenty-first century, processes of global queering are leading to a growing Asianization of Bangkok's queer cultures. The book traces Bangkok's emergence as a central focus of an expanding regional network linking gay, lesbian, and transgender communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other rapidly developing East and Southeast Asian societies.
Peter A. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888083046
- eISBN:
- 9789882207325
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083046.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book examines the roles of the market and the media, notably cinema and the Internet, in the recent transformations of Bangkok's queer communities. It considers the ambiguous consequences that ...
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This book examines the roles of the market and the media, notably cinema and the Internet, in the recent transformations of Bangkok's queer communities. It considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual (LGBT) lives have had for queer rights in Thailand. The chapter also considers Bangkok queer cultures until mid-2008, just before the onset of the global financial crisis in the second half of that year and before the intensification of political conflicts between supporters and opponents of the September 2006 military coup that toppled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.Less
This book examines the roles of the market and the media, notably cinema and the Internet, in the recent transformations of Bangkok's queer communities. It considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual (LGBT) lives have had for queer rights in Thailand. The chapter also considers Bangkok queer cultures until mid-2008, just before the onset of the global financial crisis in the second half of that year and before the intensification of political conflicts between supporters and opponents of the September 2006 military coup that toppled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Peter A. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888083046
- eISBN:
- 9789882207325
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083046.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter compares the boom in Bangkok queer cultures over the past decade with the sense of decline in some Western lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) scenes. It also examines the political, ...
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This chapter compares the boom in Bangkok queer cultures over the past decade with the sense of decline in some Western lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) scenes. It also examines the political, cultural, technological, and transnational forces that likewise contributed to the rapid expansion of queer markets in early twenty-first-century Bangkok.Less
This chapter compares the boom in Bangkok queer cultures over the past decade with the sense of decline in some Western lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) scenes. It also examines the political, cultural, technological, and transnational forces that likewise contributed to the rapid expansion of queer markets in early twenty-first-century Bangkok.
Amin Ghaziani
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691158792
- eISBN:
- 9781400850174
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691158792.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This book has explored the enduring yet evolving relationship between sexuality and the city, the causes and consequences of urban change, the diverse and dynamic cultures of a place, the experiences ...
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This book has explored the enduring yet evolving relationship between sexuality and the city, the causes and consequences of urban change, the diverse and dynamic cultures of a place, the experiences of a marginalized community on the doorstep of equality, and the protean meanings and material expressions of the gayborhood in America. Gayborhoods are artifacts of urban planning, but in the coming out era, they also embodied distinct queer cultures and communities. Today, however, they are straightening and becoming mainstream. The book concludes by suggesting that the queer spirit has become more plastic and portable in a post-gay era, which helps gayborhoods to evolve in exciting ways as many different gender and sexual minorities reinvent their relationship with them, and thus the city itself, in profound ways.Less
This book has explored the enduring yet evolving relationship between sexuality and the city, the causes and consequences of urban change, the diverse and dynamic cultures of a place, the experiences of a marginalized community on the doorstep of equality, and the protean meanings and material expressions of the gayborhood in America. Gayborhoods are artifacts of urban planning, but in the coming out era, they also embodied distinct queer cultures and communities. Today, however, they are straightening and becoming mainstream. The book concludes by suggesting that the queer spirit has become more plastic and portable in a post-gay era, which helps gayborhoods to evolve in exciting ways as many different gender and sexual minorities reinvent their relationship with them, and thus the city itself, in profound ways.
Nadine Hubbs
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520241848
- eISBN:
- 9780520937956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520241848.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter examines Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. It suggests that this opera was a landmark collaborative creation of U.S. modernist artists engaged in ...
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This chapter examines Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. It suggests that this opera was a landmark collaborative creation of U.S. modernist artists engaged in early-twentieth-century efforts to establish a distinctly and genuinely American voice in transatlantic high culture. It also highlights the queer expressive potential of artistic abstraction within the homophobic context of twentieth-century U.S. culture, and the crucial confluence of queer lives and culture with artistic activity and culture.Less
This chapter examines Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. It suggests that this opera was a landmark collaborative creation of U.S. modernist artists engaged in early-twentieth-century efforts to establish a distinctly and genuinely American voice in transatlantic high culture. It also highlights the queer expressive potential of artistic abstraction within the homophobic context of twentieth-century U.S. culture, and the crucial confluence of queer lives and culture with artistic activity and culture.
Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390809
- eISBN:
- 9789888390441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390809.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, ...
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Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, especially as manifested online, this book explores extended, diversified, and transculturally informed fan communities and practices based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have cultivated various forms of queerness. To right an imbalance in the scholarly literature on queer East Asia, this volume is weighted toward an exploration of queer elements of mainland Chinese fandoms that have been less often written about than more visible cultural elements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Case studies drawn from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the flows among them include: the Chinese online Hetalia fandom; Chinese fans’ queer gossip on the American L-Word actress Katherine Moennig; Dongfang Bubai iterations; the HOCC fandom; cross-border fans of Li Yuchun; and Japaneseness in Taiwanese BL fantasies; among others.Less
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, especially as manifested online, this book explores extended, diversified, and transculturally informed fan communities and practices based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have cultivated various forms of queerness. To right an imbalance in the scholarly literature on queer East Asia, this volume is weighted toward an exploration of queer elements of mainland Chinese fandoms that have been less often written about than more visible cultural elements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Case studies drawn from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the flows among them include: the Chinese online Hetalia fandom; Chinese fans’ queer gossip on the American L-Word actress Katherine Moennig; Dongfang Bubai iterations; the HOCC fandom; cross-border fans of Li Yuchun; and Japaneseness in Taiwanese BL fantasies; among others.
Chris Perriam
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748665860
- eISBN:
- 9780748684267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748665860.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The chapter establishes the connections between LGBTQ filmmaking and the everyday experience of its audiences in Spain over the past 25 years. It links a discussion of the term ‘queer’, relating both ...
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The chapter establishes the connections between LGBTQ filmmaking and the everyday experience of its audiences in Spain over the past 25 years. It links a discussion of the term ‘queer’, relating both to film and Spain, to the phenomenon of liberalization represented by changes to the Spanish Civil Code in July 2005 on same-sex married couples. It traces the developments of a queer Spanish film culture and of post-identity politics through documentaries, feature films and shorts.Less
The chapter establishes the connections between LGBTQ filmmaking and the everyday experience of its audiences in Spain over the past 25 years. It links a discussion of the term ‘queer’, relating both to film and Spain, to the phenomenon of liberalization represented by changes to the Spanish Civil Code in July 2005 on same-sex married couples. It traces the developments of a queer Spanish film culture and of post-identity politics through documentaries, feature films and shorts.
Lisa Henderson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814790571
- eISBN:
- 9780814790595
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814790571.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, ...
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This book argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, the book offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness. Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman on Will and Grace—rich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts as Boys Don't Cry, Brokeback Mountain, By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in the New York Times, this book sees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison's novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste? With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities, the book returns class and its politics to the study of queer life.Less
This book argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, the book offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness. Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman on Will and Grace—rich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts as Boys Don't Cry, Brokeback Mountain, By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in the New York Times, this book sees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison's novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste? With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities, the book returns class and its politics to the study of queer life.
Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676101
- eISBN:
- 9781452947624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676101.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This introductory chapter discusses the general disregard for America’s queer culture that has been observed since the onslaught of AIDS among homosexuals during the early 1980s. Gay culture, among ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the general disregard for America’s queer culture that has been observed since the onslaught of AIDS among homosexuals during the early 1980s. Gay culture, among all kinds of queer culture, was targeted not because of the AIDS epidemic but because of the AIDS epidemic becoming an avenue for cultural forces, which include straight men and women, as well as the gay neoconservatives. For instances during the post-AIDS onslaught, the issue of “gay marriage” has risen to the forefront of public consciousness as an in-demand debatable topic, an abandonment of “gay ghettos,” and the hampering of the entry of the rhetoric of sexual liberation to the popular media.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the general disregard for America’s queer culture that has been observed since the onslaught of AIDS among homosexuals during the early 1980s. Gay culture, among all kinds of queer culture, was targeted not because of the AIDS epidemic but because of the AIDS epidemic becoming an avenue for cultural forces, which include straight men and women, as well as the gay neoconservatives. For instances during the post-AIDS onslaught, the issue of “gay marriage” has risen to the forefront of public consciousness as an in-demand debatable topic, an abandonment of “gay ghettos,” and the hampering of the entry of the rhetoric of sexual liberation to the popular media.
Nadine Hubbs
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520280656
- eISBN:
- 9780520958340
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520280656.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
Chapter 4, “ ‘Fuck Aneta Briant’ and the Queer Politics of Being Political,” builds on the preceding chapters’ arguments on US country music and on gender in the white working class to examine ...
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Chapter 4, “ ‘Fuck Aneta Briant’ and the Queer Politics of Being Political,” builds on the preceding chapters’ arguments on US country music and on gender in the white working class to examine contemporary representations of homophobia, past and present. This final chapter engages histories of class-specific gender and sexual cultures and reads these in conjunction with the concrete anti-homophobic instance of David Allan Coe's “Fuck Aneta Briant,” in order to trace working-class cultural logics unfathomed in many contemporary discussions of (perceived) redneck bigotry. Ultimately, my conclusions indict not the middle-classing of the queer but the cultural logic whereby the associations now forged between the queer and the middle class necessitate demonizing the white working class as homophobic and erasing and depoliticizing their deep historical relations to queer culture.Less
Chapter 4, “ ‘Fuck Aneta Briant’ and the Queer Politics of Being Political,” builds on the preceding chapters’ arguments on US country music and on gender in the white working class to examine contemporary representations of homophobia, past and present. This final chapter engages histories of class-specific gender and sexual cultures and reads these in conjunction with the concrete anti-homophobic instance of David Allan Coe's “Fuck Aneta Briant,” in order to trace working-class cultural logics unfathomed in many contemporary discussions of (perceived) redneck bigotry. Ultimately, my conclusions indict not the middle-classing of the queer but the cultural logic whereby the associations now forged between the queer and the middle class necessitate demonizing the white working class as homophobic and erasing and depoliticizing their deep historical relations to queer culture.
Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814737309
- eISBN:
- 9780814744680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public ...
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This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public culture despite the illegality of homosexuality. State-funded gay films, subsidized theater plays, Internet portals, and nightclubs are part of the new spaces and practices that have been direct beneficiaries of this policy initiative. In a city-state such as Singapore, cultural citizenship is contested through the way sexuality functions as a technology for the creative economy. While the government has mobilized sexuality as a policy tool to promote cultural liberalization, gays and lesbians have also seized on these practices to claim their right to produce and participate in public culture. The chapter thus evaluates how lesbians “do” citizenship and fashion modes of expression through their media consumption that allow them to fit in, use, and twist the governmental framing of media environments.Less
This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public culture despite the illegality of homosexuality. State-funded gay films, subsidized theater plays, Internet portals, and nightclubs are part of the new spaces and practices that have been direct beneficiaries of this policy initiative. In a city-state such as Singapore, cultural citizenship is contested through the way sexuality functions as a technology for the creative economy. While the government has mobilized sexuality as a policy tool to promote cultural liberalization, gays and lesbians have also seized on these practices to claim their right to produce and participate in public culture. The chapter thus evaluates how lesbians “do” citizenship and fashion modes of expression through their media consumption that allow them to fit in, use, and twist the governmental framing of media environments.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his ...
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This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his affairs with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, the book shows how Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences and managed to exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. Noguchi's intimacies illuminate how Japanese immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community and achieved romantic fulfillment at the turn of the century—a period characterized by historians as a moment of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Building on biographies of Yone Noguchi and studies of sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and late Meiji Japan, combined with debates about queer cultures and Western imperialism, this book reveals how Noguchi was able to articulate same-sex love and interracial marriage even in the face of racism.Less
This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his affairs with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, the book shows how Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences and managed to exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. Noguchi's intimacies illuminate how Japanese immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community and achieved romantic fulfillment at the turn of the century—a period characterized by historians as a moment of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Building on biographies of Yone Noguchi and studies of sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and late Meiji Japan, combined with debates about queer cultures and Western imperialism, this book reveals how Noguchi was able to articulate same-sex love and interracial marriage even in the face of racism.
Chris Perriam
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748665860
- eISBN:
- 9780748684267
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748665860.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The book analyses the development of lesbian gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) film and its audiences and resonance in Spain from 1998 to the present day. It places this within the wider ...
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The book analyses the development of lesbian gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) film and its audiences and resonance in Spain from 1998 to the present day. It places this within the wider contexts of LGBTQ cultures and community politics. It includes discussions of film festivals, cultural centres and social networking sites. It places the film-watching experience alongside other cultural activities such as television viewing, reading, surfing, downloading and festival-going. Social and political issues covered include changes in legislation relating to same-sex partnerships and families, oppression and discrimination, coming out, older lesbians and gay men, queer radicalism and the relationship of images to activism and community awareness. Covering lesbian cinema as well as gay, and queer documentaries and short films as well as mainstream features, the book investigates how LGBTQ films are circulated and how audiences react to them.Less
The book analyses the development of lesbian gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) film and its audiences and resonance in Spain from 1998 to the present day. It places this within the wider contexts of LGBTQ cultures and community politics. It includes discussions of film festivals, cultural centres and social networking sites. It places the film-watching experience alongside other cultural activities such as television viewing, reading, surfing, downloading and festival-going. Social and political issues covered include changes in legislation relating to same-sex partnerships and families, oppression and discrimination, coming out, older lesbians and gay men, queer radicalism and the relationship of images to activism and community awareness. Covering lesbian cinema as well as gay, and queer documentaries and short films as well as mainstream features, the book investigates how LGBTQ films are circulated and how audiences react to them.
Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748699193
- eISBN:
- 9781474422017
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699193.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in ...
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This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France, as well as how these films are seen in the UK. It studies films from various genres and examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations. A focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries allows for the consideration of issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, affiliation and investment, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. The book examines films that chronicle the local, national and sub-national identities while also addressing foreign audiences. It draws on a large sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups as well as on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.Less
This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France, as well as how these films are seen in the UK. It studies films from various genres and examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations. A focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries allows for the consideration of issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, affiliation and investment, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. The book examines films that chronicle the local, national and sub-national identities while also addressing foreign audiences. It draws on a large sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups as well as on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.
James Boaden
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719096495
- eISBN:
- 9781526124135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096495.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History
In 1951 the filmmaker and poet James Broughton moved to London from San Francisco. At that time he was beginning to garner a reputation for his short, whimsical, films, which often made use of ...
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In 1951 the filmmaker and poet James Broughton moved to London from San Francisco. At that time he was beginning to garner a reputation for his short, whimsical, films, which often made use of outmoded costumes and decaying public spaces. One important reason he gave for moving was the idea that Britain had a more open-minded society for queer artists like himself to work within, in contrast to the McCarthy-era USA. With the help of a number of figures from the British film establishment he managed to make a half-hour-long film The Pleasure Garden in London. The film is for the most part set among the ruins of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and the surrounding park. Broughton’s film is an allegory of Britain as he found it in the summer of 1951, asserting its own vision of a post-war national identity in the Festival of Britain. This chapter examines the way in which the Festival of Britain revived certain ideas of national identity from the past, yet neglected others – and the way in which these ideas were doubled and questioned in Broughton’s film.Less
In 1951 the filmmaker and poet James Broughton moved to London from San Francisco. At that time he was beginning to garner a reputation for his short, whimsical, films, which often made use of outmoded costumes and decaying public spaces. One important reason he gave for moving was the idea that Britain had a more open-minded society for queer artists like himself to work within, in contrast to the McCarthy-era USA. With the help of a number of figures from the British film establishment he managed to make a half-hour-long film The Pleasure Garden in London. The film is for the most part set among the ruins of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and the surrounding park. Broughton’s film is an allegory of Britain as he found it in the summer of 1951, asserting its own vision of a post-war national identity in the Festival of Britain. This chapter examines the way in which the Festival of Britain revived certain ideas of national identity from the past, yet neglected others – and the way in which these ideas were doubled and questioned in Broughton’s film.
Sophie Mayer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474419444
- eISBN:
- 9781474444682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419444.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The hybrid nature of Moodeijt Yorgas, which blends talking heads with oral histories presented through dance, music and optically printed effects, effects an imbrication of documentary and ...
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The hybrid nature of Moodeijt Yorgas, which blends talking heads with oral histories presented through dance, music and optically printed effects, effects an imbrication of documentary and experiments through a specifically non-white, queer feminist authorship. The author thus argues that Moffatt’s film presents a challenge to traditional conceptions of the author/auteur, embedded in Euro-Western exceptionalist individualism. “The stakes for the Moodeitj Yorgas project were therefore high: contesting historical erasure, contemporary misrepresentation by settler culture, and … way in in which settler patriarchy had been internalised within Aboriginal communities to devalue women’s law.”Less
The hybrid nature of Moodeijt Yorgas, which blends talking heads with oral histories presented through dance, music and optically printed effects, effects an imbrication of documentary and experiments through a specifically non-white, queer feminist authorship. The author thus argues that Moffatt’s film presents a challenge to traditional conceptions of the author/auteur, embedded in Euro-Western exceptionalist individualism. “The stakes for the Moodeitj Yorgas project were therefore high: contesting historical erasure, contemporary misrepresentation by settler culture, and … way in in which settler patriarchy had been internalised within Aboriginal communities to devalue women’s law.”
Jeffrey Shandler
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190651961
- eISBN:
- 9780190651992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190651961.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines the multiple roles that gender plays in Yiddish, beginning with its grammar. Yiddish has often been conceptualized as a gendered language, whether in its instrumental use or in ...
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This chapter examines the multiple roles that gender plays in Yiddish, beginning with its grammar. Yiddish has often been conceptualized as a gendered language, whether in its instrumental use or in its symbolic value, given that Yiddish is always used in relation to other languages. In particular, women have figured strategically in the development of Yiddish literature, both in the early modern period and during the Haskalah. In the modern period, Yiddish has sometimes been characterized as essentially “feminine” in contrast with Hebrew as “masculine.” Yiddish has also been used to disrupt a heteronormative gender binary, whether articulating a third gender in traditional Jewish literacy or the recent phenomenon of Queer Yiddishkeit.Less
This chapter examines the multiple roles that gender plays in Yiddish, beginning with its grammar. Yiddish has often been conceptualized as a gendered language, whether in its instrumental use or in its symbolic value, given that Yiddish is always used in relation to other languages. In particular, women have figured strategically in the development of Yiddish literature, both in the early modern period and during the Haskalah. In the modern period, Yiddish has sometimes been characterized as essentially “feminine” in contrast with Hebrew as “masculine.” Yiddish has also been used to disrupt a heteronormative gender binary, whether articulating a third gender in traditional Jewish literacy or the recent phenomenon of Queer Yiddishkeit.