Queer Cinema in the World

"As the first substantive text on contemporary global queer cinema, Queer Cinema in the World transforms current debates in world cinema while bringing a welcome disciplinary specificity to queer theory's musings on cinema and transnational queer representability. Provocative, generative, and teachable, Queer Cinema in the World excites the reader with its scope and smartness." - Patricia White, author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

"In a self-admittedly 'risky venture' Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt bring together three deeply contested terms—'queer,' 'cinema,' and 'world' to reconfigure—successfully and elegantly—our imagination of queer cinema’s ongoing project of conjuring different worlds. The book opens the door to a diversity of queer cinematic projects that while moving through the circuits of the global, carry with them their particular histories, cartographies, poetics, politics, aesthetics, spatio-temporalities, and erotics. A most intellectually audacious work." - Shohini Ghosh, Sajjad Zaheer Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice." - Regina Longo, Film Quarterly

"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that is bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended." - G. R. Butters Jr., Choice

"A wildly ambitious configuring of contemporary queer cinema that has no less than a holistic revision of cinematic representation on its mind. . . . Queer Cinema in the World belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who consistently grapples with understanding human difference as a positive quality of social and political life." - Clayton Dillard, Slant Magazine

"[A] willingness to attend to the surprising ways and spaces where queer cinema can appear is part of what makes the book so dizzyingly comprehensive and enjoyable. . . . This commitment to searching out queer world cinema’s as yet unthought possibilities of pleasure and intimacy shines through." - Brandon Kemp, Hong Kong Review of Books

"Queer Cinema in the World is a work of remarkable capaciousness and intellectual adventure, written in welcome defiance of the scholarly demand for tight focus and narrow specialization. Maximalist rather than minimalist, it offers a wide view that, among its other pleasures, will provide many readers with introductions to neglected films and filmmakers as well as with compelling treatments of works that are now part of the canon of queer cinema."

"By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at large." - Joanna Randall, Journal of Film and Video

"Questions of materiality, geopolitics, neo-liberalism, and travelling queerness all come together in [Queer Cinema in the World.]" - J. Daniel Luther, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued." - Lindsey Green-Simms, College Literature

"Theoretically daring. . . . it is not difficult to see [Queer Cinema in the World] serving as a cornerstone of future scholarship on queer cinema, and the authors should be commended." - James Hodgson, Screen

"A pioneering comparative overview of queer screens around the globe." - Gilad Padva, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television