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Dr. Karl Schoonover speaks on 'Queer Cinema and the spaces of Europe' at University of Sussex

On Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 Dr. Karl Schoonover, along with his collaborator Dr. Rosalind Galt, will give a presentation entitled 'Queer Cinema and the spaces of Europe' in the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.

Schoonver and Galt are co-founders of the Global Queer Cinema website and research project.

The abstract of their paper is below:

Queer Cinema and the Spaces of Europe

Queer cinema creates worlds, intervening in existing debates on the national, transnational and global as well as envisioning new modes of being in the world. This talk will focus on how contemporary queer films imagine Europe, and how dissident gender and sexual identities intersect with persistent questions of European politics, spaces, and identities. We will analyse border-crossing films, considering how tropes of immigration and mobility articulate sexuality with race, nationality, and marginality within and outside the EU. Looking at representations of the Muslim queer, we ask how this cinematic figure responds both to liberal visions of Europe and to a broader global politics of borders, Islamophobia, and the war on terror. We also explore the transnational within Europe, considering how popular genre films intersect the politics of LGBT tolerance with issues of national identity, political violence, and human rights.

Sun 02 Oct 2016, 18:49 | Tags: staff News Research impact Research news

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