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

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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