Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture

Padva, Gilad

doi:10.1057/9781137266347

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“…This phenomenon not only illustrates how practices of diva fandom and appropriation remain important for processes of identification, but also shows the importance of queer nostalgia. Padva (2014) argues that nostalgia—understood as the practice of glorifying and reminiscing past heroes, fights and events—has helped LGBTQ minorities by making traumatic pasts more bearable and/or revealing alternative ways to deal with present-day struggles. The inclusion of disco classics thus creates a communal experience in which LGBTQ people simultaneously share the pleasure of hearing much loved LGBTQ anthems, and recall the earlier collective or individual struggles with homophobia from that period in cultural history.…”

Section: The Cultural Logics Of Lgbtq-themed Playlistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Press play for pride’: The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify

Dhaenens

Burgess

2018

New Media & Society

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This article explores the cultural practice of creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-themed playlists on music streaming services. It aims to understand how LGBTQ identities and cultures are represented and negotiated through the use of, and shaped by, digital media platforms. Through the textual analysis of 37 LGBTQ-themed Spotify playlists, we identified four cultural logics that structure the practice of playlist curation, each of which demonstrates the significance of music consumption to individual identity work and collective belonging. We conclude that the practice of playlist curation engages with LGBTQ culture in three productive ways: first, the curators contribute to a library of libraries by sharing their diverse perspectives on what constitutes LGBTQ music culture; second, the Spotify platform engages in community-building through enabling the sharing of tastes, pleasures, and experiences; and third, the curation of playlists brings diverse identity politics to the table, resulting in playlists that are politically queer, heteronormative, or ideologically ambiguous.

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Section: The Cultural Logics Of Lgbtq-themed Playlistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Press play for pride’: The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify

Dhaenens

Burgess

2018

New Media & Society

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“…Emmanuelle Fantin et Thibault le Héragat (2016) consacrent un numéro spécial à la question de « l'âge d'or », interrogeant ainsi les constructions historiques et mnémoniques de périodes souvent idéalisées. Avec l'édition de « The New Old : Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media », Stefano Baschiera et Elena Caoduro (2017) font un pas en avant vers la problématique de la renégociation (parfois nostalgique) du passé ; la question de la queer-nostalgia est par ailleurs le sujet de deux publications majeures récentes (Kies et West, 2017 ;Padva, 2015). Le dernier numéro de la revue italienne H-ermes.…”

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Du mal du pays aux nostalgies numériques. Réflexions sur les liens entre nostalgie, nouvelles technologies et médias

Niemeyer¹

2018

ReC

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“…the butch posturing ‘beauty’ or ‘trade’ is desirable, the old, campy ‘queen’ is not; Newton, 1972). Although this subject position tended to be denigrated, which the label reflects, our intention is not to join the chorus of majoritarian disapproval of gay male ‘body fascism’ but rather to highlight how gay muscles might also be interpreted as ‘a paradigmatic example of body resistance to moral norms of sexuality and political oppression and discrimination’ (Padva, 2014: 49). The gay male gym body can be a number of things: an instrument of heteronormativity’s disciplinary regime, a technique of normalization within gay life, and a mode of self-preservation that problematizes the visual norms of straight masculinity by advertising itself as an object of desire for other men.…”

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‘The body that cannot be contained’: Queering mainstream psychology’s gay male body dissatisfaction imperative

Vasilovsky

Gurevich

2016

Sexualities

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A sizable body of mainstream social psychological body image research suggests that gay men are more dissatisfied with their bodies than heterosexual men (Morrison et al., 2004). However, much of this research has been criticized for producing explanatory models that pathologize gay men by foregrounding homosexuality, irrespective of broader sociohistorical factors, as the source of gay male body dissatisfaction (Filiault, 2010; Filiault and Drummond, 2009; Kane, 2009, 2010)-what we refer to as psychology's gay male body dissatisfaction imperative. Situated within a critical psychology perspective (Teo, 2015), this article relies on the voices of 19 gay/queer participants to problematize psychology's epistemological determinism. Their 'talk' was less interiorized and totalized than the models' conceptualizations of gay male identity and body image, highlighting the need for models that instead explicate how gay men develop individual, embodied understandings of sexual and gender identity while navigating heterosexist, masculinist, and neoliberal discourses. We investigate the corporeal manifestations of discourse and pay specific attention to queer forms of embodied resistance.

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Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture

Cited by 22 publications

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‘Press play for pride’: The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify

‘Press play for pride’: The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify

Du mal du pays aux nostalgies numériques. Réflexions sur les liens entre nostalgie, nouvelles technologies et médias

‘The body that cannot be contained’: Queering mainstream psychology’s gay male body dissatisfaction imperative

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