To coincide with the publication of After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, newly available from Wayne State University Press, the contributors recommend ‘post-romantic comedies’ that challenge the tired tropes of the neoliberal rom-com.
Clara Bradbury-Rance’s playlist offers a selection of films brought together by their use of queer / feminist recollections and citations.
In this list, LEUNG Wing-Fai highlights the narratives that feature queer black youth as protagonists.
A wonderful playlist of films produced and/or circulated in China that centre on queer people’s lives, or films in which queer people’s stories are central to the film narrative, regardless of the gender and sexual identities of the filmmakers and the target audience.
Andrew Robbins’s playlist introduces a small collection of trans*-made short films that depict trans* people finding and rewriting their own histories, envisioning their own representation, and living full lives as activists and artists fighting for coalitional issues of justice.
Tanya Horeck’s playlist, ‘Better Worlds’ contains serialised TV shows whose utopic visions are deceptively political as they offer ways of imagining and feeling possibilities and alternatives.