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[ecrea] CFP: Queer Nostalgia and Queer Histories

Wed May 18 22:11:52 GMT 2016




*CFP: Queer Nostalgia and Queer Histories*

Special Issue of /Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, /vol. 2, issue 2

Expected Publication Date: June 2017

Editors: Bridget Kies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Thomas J. West III, Syracuse University

The recent controversy over director Roland Emmerich’s feature film /Stonewall /(2015) for its rewriting of LGBT+ history as a history of white, cisgender men calls attention to the tensions in the contemporary media landscape’s portrayals of LGBT+ characters and stories. In addition to the rewriting of history, the achievement of marriage equality has led to popular attitudes by some that history has been written and gay rights have been achieved. Meanwhile, increased media attention for trans identities, led in part by Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, reveals the many ways in which the struggles for LGBT+ equality remain ongoing.

At the same time, we have observed a significant rise in the costume or historical drama, a genre that has, traditionally, enabled representations that eschew the gay/straight binary, and that offers the opportunity to reflect on our contemporary social context through allegory. Some historically situated film and television, like /Stonewall/, looks to the past with nostalgia that seems to hearken to a “simpler” time in gay male history when intersectional identities could be neglected or appropriated. Other films and television series, such as /Mad Men/ and /The Tudors/, attempt to shed light on the neglected and erased histories of LGBT+ people. The scope of this special issue is therefore to examine ways in which history and nostalgia offer us the opportunity for more diverse or more complex representations, interpretations, and interrogations of queer identities.

In this issue, we invite papers that explore the tensions produced within historical fiction or nostalgic media. We are especially interested in those papers that explore intersectional identities. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

   * Examinations of films like /Stonewall, A Single Man, Milk, Kill Your
     Darlings, Pride/ or television series such as /Spartacus, The
     Tudors, Reign, Downton Abbey, Penny Dreadful, The Borgias, Mad Men/
   * Condemnation of LGBT+ characters in historical fictional media
   * Romanticizing the struggles of the LGBT+ rights movement
   * Representations or significant absences of intersectional identities
     in historically situated media
   * Examinations of the /oeuvres /of particular directors known for
     their attention to historical issues or for nostalgic aesthetics,
     e.g. Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant
   * Historicizing the gay/straight binary or undoing the gay/straight
     binary in history
   * Reception of historically situated media within LGBT+ groups or the
     New Right

Completed essays of 5,000-7,000 words should be submitted no later than June 1, 2016. Essays should follow Intellect’s style guide, including preferred British spellings and Harvard citation style, which can be found at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/style%20guide(journals)-1.pdf <http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/style%20guide%28journals%29-1.pdf%29>

Submissions and questions about the issue should be addressed to the editors Bridget Kies and TJ West at (queernostalgia /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(queernostalgia /at/ gmail.com)>.


Bridget Kies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies
LGBT Studies
(bkies /at/ uwm.edu) <mailto:(bkies /at/ uwm.edu)>

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