Trances, myth, bachelor machines, and abstractions: post-war queer experimental film

Suárez, Juan A.

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Trances, myth, bachelor machines, and abstractions: post-war queer experimental film

dc.contributor.author	Suárez, Juan A.
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.coverage.temporal	siglo XX	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-09T11:52:40Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-09T11:52:40Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11-10
dc.description.abstract	This chapter surveys the emergence and development of a queer experimental cinema in the United States between the early 1940s and the early 1960s. It locates queer experimental film within post–World War II culture, explores the conceptions of sexuality that subtend it, and discusses its main thematic concerns, stylistic gestures, and subgenres. Against earlier readings that stress the subjective, introspective character of this body of work, the chapter argues that these films are also forms of subcultural material practice: they sexualize public and private space, upend traditional myths, articulate heterodox conceptions of the body, and make peculiar uses of everyday objects and substances. In the process, they cast sexuality and desire as a series of unclassifiable impulses and affects that attach to varied gender and corporeal configurations indiscriminately. The chapter considers well-known filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Harry Smith, and Marie Menken, along with lesser-known figures such as Willard Maas, Theodor Huff, Sara Katryn Arledge, and Jim Davis.	es
dc.embargo.terms	1-ene-2999
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	26	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190877996.013.13
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/139114
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press	es
dc.relation	Proyecto del Plan Nacional IP PGC2018-095393-B-I00 Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures. Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.	es
dc.relation.ispartof	The Oxford handbook of queer cinema, p.p. 281-307
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/37172/chapter-abstract/323744963?redirectedFrom=fulltext	es
dc.relation.requires	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190877996.013.13	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess	es
dc.subject	Experimental cinema	es
dc.subject	Postwar culture	es
dc.subject	Queer space	es
dc.subject	Domesticity	es
dc.subject	Myth	es
dc.subject	Trance film	es
dc.subject	Subcultural practice	es
dc.title	Trances, myth, bachelor machines, and abstractions: post-war queer experimental film	es
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