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

    Moor, A ORCID logoORCID: 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
    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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