queer cinema
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Read More: Jason and Shirley: Loving incantation of a state we all can identify with, the state of JasonAfter seeing Jason and Shirley (Stephen Winter, 2015) this weekend at Outfest, I am moved to respond here to Milestone Film & Video‘s recent and scathing critique of the film…
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Read More: AIDS Reruns: Becoming ‘Normal’?
Ted Kerr (formally of Visual AIDS) and I continue our conversation about recent AIDS media on the Indiewire blog, /Bent. In our discussion about The Normal Heart and other recent…
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Read More: Home Video Returns: Media Ecologies of the Past of HIV/AIDS in Cineaste
Please see my conversation with Ted Kerr, Programs Manager at Visual AIDS, recently published at Cineaste. Initially asked to discuss Dallas Buyer’s Club we felt we needed to take a…
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Read More: Signification Survival: Jump Cut 55The new issue of Jump Cut (55, Fall 2013) is hot off the presses, and as always, it is bursting with great scholarly work on any number of issues near…
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Read More: Tarek and John are Free: It’s not Your Daughter’s FacebookTarek Loubani and John Greyson were freed, last night, from prison in Cairo after spending 51 days in dire circumstances although never being officially charged with anything. No matter how…
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Read More: Queer, feminist, social media praxis workshop, University of SussexWe’re all (hello, Sussex), now, everywhere here (on the Internet), aren’t we? Undoubtedly, scholars made lots of words before now, but they couldn’t show it all to you like a…
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Read More: Against Gamification, Contests, and VotingI learned today on Facebook that Ava DuVernay won the Tribeca Film Institute’s Inaugural Heineken Affinity Award. Kudos! Her wonderful films and ambitious African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, are much-deserving…
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Read More: The Present and the Gif(t)In his blog here, “Generations,” for SCMS, Chuck Kleinhans said that at his first SCS meeting in the mid-70s “the meeting had two concurrent sessions: the Film Historians on one…
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Read More: Centers and Margins at SCMSI’ve been asked to blog during the SCMS conference on their website. I think it may be closed to non-members, so here’s what I wrote there. The memorial event last…