The blog features ongoing research, unfinished projects, fragments, and other miscellany that I might revisit, expand or leave as it is.
All of Us Strangers & Tragedy Porn
A review of Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and looking at why contemporary queer cinema and film making still centers tragedy and loss as driving force behind gay stories, even when done beautifully.
30 Years of Queerness or On appreciating Interview with a Vampire
Revisitng Interview with a Vampire, and how a heterosexual man made one of the most sensitive and interesting queer stories in cinema, thirty years on
A24 & the Spectacle of the oppressed black body
A24 queer films have been hailed as breakthrough in queer black cinema but they also have can be seen denying black bodies notions of pleasure and joy in favor of depicting “oppression” and “struggle”