Queering the Mainstream: Anna Melikian’s<i>About Love</i>(2015)

Morley, Rachel

doi:10.1080/17503132.2023.2245656

Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema

2023

DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2023.2245656

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Queering the Mainstream: Anna Melikian’sAbout Love(2015)

Rachel Morley

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Cinematic queering of the Russian heartlands: Three case studies from the 2010s

McGinity-Peebles

2024

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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Since the so-called ‘gay propaganda’ law was enacted in the Russian Federation in 2013, overt cinematic representations of LGBTQ+ lives and stories have become very rare. This article examines three rare examples of films with explicitly queer narratives: Sibir’ i on (Siberia and Him), Autlo (Outlaw) and (M)uchenik (The Student). Taking a textual analysis approach, this article illuminates the intertwined provincial and queer discourses in these three films. It argues that by drawing on the ambivalent cultural mythology of the provinces, these three films to varying degrees defy the top-down, centre-driven homophobic official discourse of Russianness. The article therefore makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on Russophone queer cinema and global queer cinema more broadly.

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Cinematic queering of the Russian heartlands: Three case studies from the 2010s

McGinity-Peebles

2024

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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Queering the Mainstream: Anna Melikian’sAbout Love(2015)

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Cinematic queering of the Russian heartlands: Three case studies from the 2010s

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