Abstract

Time has been an important analytic category in both queer and cinema studies. The former has considered how normative life structures abide by their own temporal rhythms unaccommodating of queer body-minds. The latter has examined how the constitutive factors of cinematic mediation often draw their esthetic prowess from the manipulation of time. Recent scholarship on queer cinema studies—in particular work on global queer cinemas—productively engages with considerations of how temporality becomes a central means by which this cinema conveys both the critique of anti-queer structures and the image of better queer futures. This special issue engages with these discourses and brings them together in order to activate time as a generative analytic category for contemporary queer German cinema. The introduction and five articles present various models for how to deploy time strategically in cinematic readings.

摘要

在酷儿和电影研究中，时间一直是一个重要的分析范畴。前者考虑了规范的生活结构如何遵守自己的时间节奏，不适应酷儿的身心。后者研究了电影中介的构成因素如何经常从时间的操纵中汲取审美能力。最近关于酷儿电影研究的学术研究——特别是关于全球酷儿电影的研究——富有成效地思考了时间性如何成为这部电影传达对反酷儿结构的批评和更好的酷儿未来形象的核心手段。本期特刊涉及这些话语并将它们汇集在一起​​，以激活时间作为当代德国酷儿电影的生成分析类别。