New Gay Sincerity’ and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (UK, 2011)

Moor, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-638X (2018) New Gay Sincerity’ and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (UK, 2011). Film Studies, 19 (1). pp. 4-19. ISSN 1469-0314

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Abstract

The article notes a trend towards low-key naturalism in twenty-first-century independent queer cinema. Focusing on work by Andrew Haigh, Travis Mathews and Ira Sachs, it argues that this observational style is welded to a highly meta-cinematic engagement with traditions of representing non-straight people. The article coins the term ‘New Gay Sincerity’ to account for this style, relating it to Jim Collins’s and Warren Buckland’s writing on post-postmodern ‘new sincerity’. At its crux, this new style centres itself in realism to record non-metropolitan, intimate and quotidian gay lives, while acknowledging the high-style postmodernism of oppositional 1990s New Queer Cinema.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2017 08:51
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Additional Information:	This is an Author Accepted Manuscript provided by Manchester University Press of a paper accepted for publication in Film Studies.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities Research Centres > Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics
Subject terms:	Queer, Realism, Gay, Postmodernism, New Gay Sincerity, 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/619041
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7227/FS.19.0002
ISSN	1469-0314
e-ISSN	2054-2496

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