Queer European Cinema: queering cinematic time and space

Girl Interrupted: The Queer Time of Warhol's Cinema

What Is Body, What Is Space? Performance and the Cinematic Body in a Non-Anthropocentric Cinema

The assumption of a clear demarcation and hierarchy between figure and ground has long informed key approaches in film studies to bodies and space. However, many filmmakers working in both animation and live cinema have confounded this hierarchy, working with an integration of figure and ground on equal terms to explore the full performative potential of the cinematic body. In the animation wor...

Global Queering andGlobal Queer Theory: Thai [Trans]genders and [Homo]sexualities inWorld History

Since the early 1990s, many authors [e.g. Plummer, 1992; Altman, 1996a, 1996b, 1997, 2001; Drucker, 2000; Jackson, 2000] have identified the transnational proliferation of new same-sex and transgender identities and cultures as a significant instance of cultural globalisation. In 1992, Plummer wrote, “Homosexualities have become globalised”. [Plummer, 1992: 17] Altman has labeled this phenomeno...

Želimir Žilnik and Eastern European Independent Cinema

e vast majority of literature devoted to independent cinema focuses on American fi lm production. When I was looking for books on independent cinema in my university library, out of about twenty fi ve, I identifi ed twenty or so devoted exclusively to American cinema. For the majority of scholars and students, using the term “independent” means independent from Hollywood, not only in terms of f...

Cinematic perspectives on the ‘war on terror’: The Road to Guantánamo (2006) and activist cinema

On 14 th March, 2006, The Road to Guantánamo (Whitecross, 1 Winterbottom) became the first film ever to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on broadcast television, on DVD and over the internet for streaming or downloading. This unprecedented adoption of a „day-date‟ release schedule by the film‟s British distributor is a sign that, as a consequence of shifts in film-viewing practices, the c...