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[ecrea] Publieshed: Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 2.3

Tue Nov 28 18:53:24 GMT 2017








We are delighted to announce that the new issue of /Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture/ <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/qsmpc/2017/00000002/00000003><http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/qsmpc/2017/00000002/00000003>is now available.


Articles within this issue include (partial list):


Violent bodies and victim narratives: On the cinematic activism of Gregg Araki’s The Living End <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24587/>

Authors: Robert Mills

Page Start: 309


This article examines how director Gregg Araki uses violence as a means of political contestation in his queer ‘road movie’ The Living End (1992). Closely analysing the formal and aesthetic construction of the film’s various violent moments by considering them alongside both specific activist practices and works of theory, this discussion outlines the material effects, and subsequently the significance of Araki’s abrasive, often confrontational style. Throughout, this article argues that The Living End’s use of violence operates on a much more complex level than a lot of critical discussions recognize, moving its focus away from the currently dominant practice of attributing significance to ‘homo pomo’ (homosexual postmodern) stylistics and instead considering the contextually specific political realities that prompted such representational excess.


Male intimacy in Marco Berger’s /Plan B /and/Hawaii/ <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24588/>

Authors: Andrew Korn

Page Start: 323


Argentinian director Marco Berger has made representing love between men, rather than their sex and individual sexual identities, his cinema’s objective. Critics and scholars have noted his original refocusing of bonds between men, which is consonant with contemporary queer Latin/o American film and theory. To elucidate Berger’s relationality, this article outlines the formal and thematic elements in his short film El reloj(The Watch) (2008) and examines their expansion in his features Plan B(2009) andHawaii(2013). Uniting Berger’s idea of ‘love’ with Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘friendship’, I argue that the features visualize the formation of a unique male intimacy in which men can explore each other’s physicality, share affectionate gestures, express sensitivity, play together, take care of each other and have sex. Their bonds lessen heteronormative aggression and dominance and transform sexuality, as they no longer derive pleasure solely from the sexual act but rather from the range of sensations, emotions and experiences of their multifaceted intimacy.


<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24590/>

Failure reconnaissance: The virtual problem of the /It Gets Better Project/ <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24590/>

Authors: Robert Lipscomb

Page Start: 353


The It Gets Better Project, founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller and launched in response to a spate of queer teen suicides, purports to offer messages of hope and encouragement to youth struggling with issues related to their sexual identities. Although many critics have already noted the problematic nature of It Gets Better’s platform and messaging, this article critiques the project with a twofold approach in order to highlight alternate and more useful approaches to messaging queer teens. First, works by theorists including Lee Edelman and Michael Warner offer insight into the project’s dangerous propensity for encouraging assimilation and normalization within the larger social apparatuses that fostered a need for the project in the first place. Second, this analysis builds on Judith Halberstam’s work on the legacy of queer failure, in addition to emphasizing Kate Bornstein’s pragmatism, to propose methods of messaging that are materially helpful and instructional to the queer teen, the queer community and potentially the culture as a whole.

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