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Queer bare lives: Melodramatic form and biopolitics in Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark

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dc.creatorWan, Mingyuan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T11:10:19Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T11:10:19Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers how the melodramatic form of Out in the Dark is employed to subvert the biopolitical discourses concerning queer migration across the Israel-Palestine border. In the diegesis, the queer Palestinian refugee is gradually stripped of his human rights, security, and legitimacy during border crossing, gradually being reduced into a state of ‘bare life’. I contend that the film Out in the Dark represents queer bare lives to subvert the homonationalist discourses employed by Israeli state power. The melodramatic form of Out in the Dark alters the recognition of the victim/hero/villain and cultivates novel spectatorial sensibilities via aesthetics. Ultimately, I show how the film associates queerness with the confluence of nationalism, militarism, and heteropatriarchy on both sides of the Israel-Palestine border, which offers a critique of biopolitical governance over the lives of queer migrants.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22810
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/queer-bare-lives-melodramatic-form-and-biopolitics-in-michael-mayers-out-in-the-dark/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24289
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjecthomonationalismen
dc.subjectmelodramatic political discoursesen
dc.subjecttransnational cinemaen
dc.subjectpinkwashingen
dc.subject.ddcddc:790
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleQueer bare lives: Melodramatic form and biopolitics in Michael Mayer’s Out in the Darken
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-07-13T02:32:53
local.source.epage220
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Open
local.source.spage202
local.source.volume13

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