IASH is delighted to support the launch of Dr Anamarija Horvat’s book Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television (Bloomsbury, 2021). Screening Queer Memory interrogates how contemporary cinema and television have commented on the specificity of queer memory - how they have reflected aspects of its construction, as well as participated in its creation. The book poses several central questions: How are the pasts of LGBTQ people and communities visualised and commemorated on screen? How do these representations comment on the influence of film and television on the construction of queer memory? How do they present the passage of memory from one generation of LGBTQ people to another? And finally, which narratives of the queer past, particularly of the activist past, are being commemorated, and which obscured? In doing so, it adds to an under-examined area of queer media research which has privileged concepts of nostalgia, history, temporality and the archive over memory, therein making a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between LGBTQ memory and how it is represented on and shaped by film and television.
The book will be introduced by author Dr Anamarija Horvat and the discussion led by Dr Glyn Davis (Edinburgh College of Art). The event will take place online via Zoom.
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