An edition of Queer Nostalgia In Cinema And Pop Culture (2014)
Queer Nostalgia In Cinema And Pop Culture
By Gilad Padva
Publish Date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan,Springer
Language
eng
Pages
262
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.