Queer Post-Cinema
Reinventing Resistance
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Hardback
XI, 203 pages
978-3-96558-088-6 (ISBN)
Description
The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema - a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways. Through original readings of Todd Haynes's early films, Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana's videos and installations, Su Friedrich's digital video Seeing Red, Charlie Prodgers's iPhone film Bridgit, and Claire Denis's science-fiction film Highlife, this monograph shows how artists are creating a new form of resistance in the time of the digital image and generative AI.
Reviews / Votes
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky's insightful and cautiously hopeful new book reads as a revelation. This series of stunning essays is framed by a magisterial introduction that traces our own post-cinematic moment back to New Queer Cinema - productively redefining both by means of this unanticipated mash-up - and concludes with a moving and compelling coda on immersive technologies and artificial intelligence. Informed throughout by enviously accessible expositions of queer theory, affect theory, and psychoanalysis, and drawing especially on the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, the volume is as lucid in its sustained intent as it is exacting in its analysis. Deuber-Mankowsky critically excavates models of queer resistance across an eclectic but nonetheless coherent range of media, ultimately coming to champion an ethic of the interstice: revealing an open field of possibility where nothing less than the future itself is at stake. - Ian Fleishman, Chair of Cinema & Media Studies, University of PennsylvaniaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
30
Colour Images
Dimensions
Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 12.7 cm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-96558-088-6 (9783965580886)
DOI
10.37050/ci-32
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Author
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is Professor Emerita of Media Studies and Gender Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She has also been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Paris, and Indonesia. She is an Associate Member of the ICI Berlin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Museum, and a member of the board of the Centre d'études du vivant CEV/Université Paris Cité. Her research focuses on topics in critical, feminist, and queer theory, media philosophy and epistemology, temporality and media aesthetics, philosophy of technology, as well as Jewish Philosophy.
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Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction | 1-26
Autoimmunity and Sexual Difference in Todd Haynes's Films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Safe | 27-52
Affective-Political Work with Documents: Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana | 53-80
Intense Play with Light and Sound: Reading Su Friedrich's Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin's and Gilles Deleuze's Philosophies of Technology | 81-114
The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity: Charlie Prodger's Bridgit | 115-148
She Is Inseminating: Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis's Science Fiction Film High Life (2018) | 149-179
Coda | 181-185
References
Index