Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: What is Queer about Nostalgia?....Pages 1-12
Animated Nostalgia and Invented Authenticity in Arte’s Summer of the Sixties....Pages 13-34
Nostalgic Physique: Displaying Foucauldian Muscles and Celebrating the Male Body in Beefcake....Pages 35-57
Sexing the Past: Communal Exposure and Self-Examination in Gay Sex in the 70s....Pages 58-71
Claiming Lost Gay Youth, Embracing Femininostalgia: Todd Haynes’s Dottie Gets Spanked and Velvet Goldmine....Pages 72-97
Boys Want to Have Fun! Carnivalesque Adolescence and Nostalgic Resorts in Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel ....Pages 98-122
Reinventing Lesbian Youth in Su Friedrich’s Cinematic Autoqueerography Hide and Seek....Pages 123-138
Uses of Nostalgia in Musical Politicization of Homo/Phobic Myths in Were the World Mine, The Big Gay Musical, and Zero Patience....Pages 139-172
Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga’s Nostalgic Yearning for Queer Mythology, Monsters, and Martyrs....Pages 173-198
Black Nostalgia: Poetry, Ethnicity, and Homoeroticism in Looking for Langston and Brother to Brother....Pages 199-226
Afterword: Queering Nostalgia or Queer Nostalgia?....Pages 227-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-254