Author

Publication

2014 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

65,500 words, Guess

Page Count

262 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCHM401-1281PN1992.63P

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.

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Other Editions

  • Queer Nostalgia In Cinema And Pop CulturePalgrave Macmillan2014

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