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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies
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The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email [email protected]
In her funny and provocative study of the US sitcom, CLOSURES, @gracelavery.bsky.social considers the flimsiness of heteronorms www.dukeupress.edu/closures
Closures
www.dukeupress.edu
June 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This special dossier from last Spring's issue of Screen explores queer TV in a globalising Asia, edited by SIG member Jamie J. Zhao doi.org/10.1093/scre...
Queer TV Asia: emerging studies of queer TV in a globalising Asia Introduction
Queerness, broadly understood, denotes identities, practices, positions and relations that upset mainstream society’s ‘normalizing mandates’ concerning gen
doi.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
From @thepetermarra.bsky.social, QUEER SLASHERS examines the complicated appeal of the slasher film for queer audiences and filmmakers iupress.org/978025307194...
Queer Slashers
From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of q...
iupress.org
June 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...
Bodies of Water
sunypress.edu
June 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Barbara Mennel follows the queer desire swirling through a Prussian boarding school in MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1931) and its fragmented afterlife in a BFI Film Classic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/m%C3%A4dc...
Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera.Adapted fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In their book CORPSES, FOOLS & MONSTERS, Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay chart the history and future of trans representation on screen www.screenslate.com/articles/cor...
Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: A Conversation with Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay
In one of the most famous trans allegories in cinema history, The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters, the main character Neo is offered a choice: take the red pill and experience awarene...
www.screenslate.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Performance and video artist Dayna McLeod explores ageing queer female subjectivity, homophobia and desire in a 'threesome' of video essays about Donna Deitch's DESERT HEARTS intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
<em>Desert Hearts</em>: An Aging Queer Trilogy
“Desert Hearts: An Aging Queer Trilogy” is a threesome of video essays that engage with and excavate representations of aging queer female subjectivity, homophobia, and desire in Desert Hearts (direct...
intransition.openlibhums.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Co-edited by our SIG member Michael Williams, this collection published by @intellectbooks.bsky.social brings together critical perspectives on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Call Me by Your Name
This edited collection explores how Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. Adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman’s n...
press.uchicago.edu
June 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM