Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: What is Queer about Nostalgia?

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 1-12

3. Animated Nostalgia and Invented Authenticity in Arte’s Summer of the Sixties

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 13-34

4. Nostalgic Physique: Displaying Foucauldian Muscles and Celebrating the Male Body in Beefcake

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 35-57

5. Sexing the Past: Communal Exposure and Self-Examination in Gay Sex in the 70s

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 58-71

6. Claiming Lost Gay Youth, Embracing Femininostalgia: Todd Haynes’s Dottie Gets Spanked and Velvet Goldmine

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 72-97

7. Boys Want to Have Fun! Carnivalesque Adolescence and Nostalgic Resorts in Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 98-122

8. Reinventing Lesbian Youth in Su Friedrich’s Cinematic Autoqueerography Hide and Seek

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 123-138

9. Uses of Nostalgia in Musical Politicization of Homo/Phobic Myths in Were the World Mine, The Big Gay Musical, and Zero Patience

   • Gilad Padva

   Pages 139-172

10. Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga’s Nostalgic Yearning for Queer Mythology, Monsters, and Martyrs

    • Gilad Padva

    Pages 173-198

11. Black Nostalgia: Poetry, Ethnicity, and Homoeroticism in Looking for Langston and Brother to Brother

    • Gilad Padva

    Pages 199-226

12. Afterword: Queering Nostalgia or Queer Nostalgia?

    • Gilad Padva

    Pages 227-232

13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-254

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Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism.

• adolescence
• authenticity
• chauvinism
• cinema
• culture
• empowerment
• Mythology
• myths
• Self
• youth

"This is an original, timely, and important intervention in the field of Queer Studies, providing a very convincing argument for the essentially queer nature of nostalgia, nostalgic practices, and nostalgia-inspired cultural production. It is a welcome addition to the body of literature on and around these issues." - Elisabetta Girelli, University of St Andrews, UK

"Padva's work is exciting, interesting and original and will remain an important book in the field" - Rohit K. Dasgupta, The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

  Gilad Padva

Gilad Padva is a film and media scholar who focuses on New Queer Cinema, popular culture, visual communications and men's studies. He is the co-editor of the international collection Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014), and he publishes extensively in international academic journals, international collections, and international encyclopedias. He currently works for the Communication Department at Tel Aviv University, the Open University of Israel, Beit Berl Academic College, and WIZO Haifa Academic College.

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