Rise like two angels in the night
Sexualized Violence against Queers in American Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6187728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ralph J Poole (0000-0001-6796-7468, University of Salzburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Issue | 13-4 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.14078 |
| OpenAlex | W2921674891 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This essay discusses ways both mainstream Hollywood films and independent cinema have addressed sexualized violence against queers. I am looking at a number of significant films that refrain from stereotypically correlating queerness, sexuality, and violence, opting for a critical assessment of this conflation and offering alternative viewpoints, instead. First highlighting the controversies around prominent films such as Cruising and Boys Don’t Cry, I then look at lesser known, but noteworthy examples (e.g. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Skinny, Vacationland, and Mysterious Skin), films arising out the independent film movement known as New Queer Cinema. Focusing on the generic conventions, the narrative strategies and aesthetic means of these films, I probe into the ways they aim to affectively engage the audience and discuss their respective cinematic approaches of envisioning justice for people from the LGBTIQ* community who have experienced violence in sexualized contexts
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Filmmaking · Hollywood · Human sexuality · Literature · Mainstream · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
New Queer Cinema
Dark, disturbing, intelligent, provocative, and quirky
Queer Images
Extravagant Abjection
Examining the Relationship Between Male Rape Myth Acceptance, Female Rape Myth Acceptance, Victim Blame, Homophobia, Gender Roles, and Ambivalent Sexism
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
The world report on violence and health
New Queer Cinema
Gay Activists and the Networks
The new queer spectator
Male Rape
If you drop the soap in the shower you are on your own
Male Rape and the Careful Construction of the Male Victim
Deconstructing the Male
Can Romantic Comedy Be Gay
The transgender gaze in Boys Don't Cry
Hollywood's Homosexual World
Cruisin' for a Brusin
Transgender on Screen
Towards a Queer Futurity
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Is the Rectum a Grave
The times we're in
The Languorous Critic
Judgments Toward Male and Transgendered Victims in a Depicted Stranger Rape
Contagious Relations
Friedkin's Cruising, Ghetto Politics, and Gay Sexuality
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |