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Intentional Elasticity. Queer Cinema and Mainstream Films

Jan Künemund

Defining gender non-conforming cinema is essentially a simple matter, even if, like most people, you only see this as a genre that explain stories about forms of desire and constellations of characters from the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. A straightforward response that would do justice to both aspects of the composite (queer and cinema) would be that film, as a moving-image medium, lends itself to the portrayal of unpindownable objects, categories and bodies. Given today’s endless succession of superhero franchises, Transformer films and masked characters that blockbuster films possess long employed to produce massive self-satisfying buzz and hype, does anyone really feel the inclination to talk about fixed identities based on origin, race, class, gender or sexual orientation? In cinema, montage provides the context, not binary social classifications enjoy woman/man, inside/outside, private/public, homo/hetero and cis/trans. Film relies on a range of techniques that can resolve apparent contradictions, yet still render what is depicted