Queer Post-Cinema

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky s insightful and cautiously hopeful new book reads as a revelation. This series of stunning essays is framed by a magisterial introduction that traces our own post-cinematic moment back to New Queer Cinema productively redefining both by means of this unanticipated mash-up and concludes with a moving and compelling coda on immersive technologies and artificial intelligence. Informed throughout by enviously accessible expositions of queer theory, affect theory, and psychoanalysis, and drawing especially on the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, the volume is as lucid in its sustained intent as it is exacting in its analysis. Deuber-Mankowsky critically excavates models of queer resistance across an eclectic but nonetheless coherent range of media, ultimately coming to champion an ethic of the interstice: revealing an open field of possibility where nothing less than the future itself is at stake. Ian Fleishman, Chair of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania