Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance

Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid

doi:doi:10.37050/ci-32

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Queer Post-Cinema

Reinventing Resistance

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Cover Image — Cover design: Studio Bens. Cover image: Wollgraffiti Zürich 2012, Besuch bei Max Bill. Bettina Baltensweiler / Flavia Barbier.

The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema — a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways. Through original readings of Todd Haynes’s early films, Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana’s videos and installations, Su Friedrich’s digital video Seeing Red, Charlie Prodgers’s iPhone film Bridgit, and Claire Denis’s science-fiction film Highlife, this monograph shows how artists are creating a new form of resistance in the time of the digital image and generative AI.

ISBN 978-3-96558-090-9 | PDF | Open Access | 30 colour images | 16 MB

ISBN 978-3-96558-091-6 | EPUB | Open Access | 30 colour images | 21 MB

Cultural Inquiry, 32
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32

Acknowledgments

Introduction1-26

Autoimmunity and Sexual Difference in Todd Haynes’s Films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Safe27-52

Affective-Political Work with Documents: Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana53-80

Intense Play with Light and Sound: Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology81-114

The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity: Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit115-148

She Is Inseminating: Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)149-179

Coda181-185