“Screening Queer Memory is a timely, exuberant research of contemporary cinematic constructions of personal and communal queer memories, histories, legacies and heritages. It provides a genuine, fresh perspective on the intricate interrelations between queer histories and queer cinemas.” – Gilad Padva, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Drawing on cutting-edge theories that are expertly woven into perceptive analyses of up-to-the-minute films and television programs from the UK and the US, Anamarija Horvat's timely and necessary book Screening Queer Memory demonstrates exactly how LGBTQ+ pasts can be memorialized, celebrated, passed down to future generations, and productively critiqued in the early twenty-first century.” – Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University, USA
IASH is delighted to support the launch of 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow 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. The launch will take place online via Zoom, and free tickets can be booked on Eventbrite.
Anamarija Horvat is a researcher in film and television studies, queer theory, and gender studies. Her monograph Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines how queer memory has been represented in and created by contemporary on-screen representation. She has also published on different subjects including intersectionality, queer migration and the history of queer television, with her work appearing in journals such as Feminist Media Studies and Critical Studies in Television, as well as in The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication and The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Queer Studies and Communication. She has recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship at IASH, is co-founder of the Queer Screens Network, and co-chair of the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Queer and Feminist Workgroup.
Glyn Davis is a theorist and historian of queer visual culture, with a particular specialism in experimental cinema and artists’ film and video. He is a Reader and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh College of Art, and is the author of Far From Heaven (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), co-author of Warhol in Ten Takes (BFI, 2013) and co-editor of Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics (Routledge, 2009) and Film Studies: A Global Introduction (Routledge, 2015). From 2016 to 2019, he was the Project Leader of a pan-European queer history project called 'Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures' (CRUSEV, http://www.crusev.ed.ac.uk), funded by HERA and the European Commission, which had research teams in Germany, Poland, Spain, and the UK. He is currently co-editing Queer Print in Europe (with Laura Guy) and The Richard Dyer Reader (with Jaap Kooijman), both forthcoming from Bloomsbury.