Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging.
In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through case study analysis of cinemagoing in Bolton and Brighton.
Presents the story of a young Greek girl, growing up in 1970's England, as she struggles to come to terms with the traditional Greek culture imposed on her by her father, whilst surrounded by the English way of life.
