[ecrea] new book: Queer Cinema in the World

*Queer Cinema in the World***

/Karl Schoonover & Rosalind Galt/

    "In a self-admittedly 'risky venture' Karl Schoonover and Rosalind 
Galt bring together three deeply contested terms—'queer,' 'cinema,' and 
'world' to reconfigure—successfully and elegantly—our imagination of 
queer cinema’s ongoing project of conjuring different worlds. The book 
opens the door to a diversity of queer cinematic projects that while 
moving through the circuits of the global, carry with them their 
particular histories, cartographies, poetics, politics, aesthetics, 
spatio-temporalities, and erotics. A most intellectually audacious 
work."–Shohini Ghosh, Sajjad Zaheer Professor at the AJK Mass 
Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

"As the first substantive text on contemporary global queer cinema/, 
Queer Cinema in the World/ transforms current debates in world cinema 
while bringing a welcome disciplinary specificity to queer theory's 
musings on cinema and transnational queer representability. Provocative, 
generative, and teachable, /Queer Cinema in the World/ excites the 
reader with its scope and smartness."–Patricia White, author of /Women's 
Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms/

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover 
and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with 
international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt 
dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer 
cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant 
ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt reimagine the scope 
of queer film studies. The authors move beyond the gay art cinema canon 
to consider a broad range of films from Chinese lesbian drama and 
Swedish genderqueer documentary to Bangladeshi melodrama and Bolivian 
activist video. Schoonover and Galt make a case for the centrality of 
queerness in cinema and trace how queer cinema circulates around the 
globe–institutionally via film festivals, online consumption, and human 
rights campaigns, but also affectively in the production of a queer 
sensorium. In this account, cinema creates a uniquely potent mode of 
queer worldliness, one that disrupts normative ways of being in the 
world and forges revised modes of belonging.

*Karl Schoonover* is Associate Professor and Reader in Film and 
Television Studies at the University of Warwick and the author of 
/Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema/.

*Rosalind Galt* is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London 
and the author of /Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image./

Duke University Press

November 2016 408pp 109 illustrations 9780822362616 PB £23.99now only 
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