Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity: A Media History of Film and Cinema in Germany Until 1945
Christiane König, "Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity: A Media History of Film and Cinema in Germany Until 1945"
English | ISBN: 3476058875 | 2022 | 541 pages | PDF | 25 MB
English | ISBN: 3476058875 | 2022 | 541 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, affects and (self-)knowledge on and off the screen. Building on Eve K. Sedgwick's queer-feminist concept of queer performativity, the author creates a historically situated model with which she traces various figures of technically anthropomorphic queer masculinity in the medium of film in an empowering sense.
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