ISSUE 9.1:
Animating LGBTQ+ Representations:
Queering the Production of Movement
edited by Kevin Cooley, Edmond “Edo” Ernest dit Alban, and Jacqueline Ristola.
Disclaimer: The following issue contains graphic images of pornographic nature. Reader’s discretion is advised.
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Introduction
Articles
Artwork
- Sasha Sanders – (Be)coming Out in Comics: Navigating Liminality and Queer Identity Formation
- Xavier Éloïse Gorgol Steimetz – Morgenglanze ( watch video )
- Evelyn Ramiel – Flip Flappers Zine
- Kevin Cooley – Notes on “Bungle in the Jungle,” Starring Moxie Mutt and Caribou Krubb
- Edmond “Edo” Ernest dit Alban, comments and art by Fabrissou – Sexy Stillness: Towards a Queered Approach to Images’ movement In, Out, and Between Japanese Popular Media (and Probably Beyond?)
- Pearl Moeko – Memoirs of a Fujoshi
Thought Pieces
Book Reviews
- Cole Armitage – Deborah Levitt. The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image
- Evelyn Ramiel – Jane Mai and An Nguyen. So Pretty / Very Rotten
- Alyssa Dewees – Gilad Padva. Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture
- Patrick Woodstock – David McGowan. Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
- Tanvi Rajvanshi – Gayatri Gopinath. Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
- Aurélie Petit – Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin. The Anime Boom in the United States
- Jacob Zhicheng Zhang – Maud Lavin, Yang Ling, and Zhao Jing Jamie, eds. Boy’s Love, Cosplay, and Angrogynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
General Book Reviews
- Alani Gaunt – Susan Potter. Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema
- Pablo La Parra Pérez – Robert Stam. World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media: Towards a Transartistic Commons
- Giulia Taurino – Ramon Lobato. Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution
- Jonathan Larcher – Katherine Groo. Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive
- Patrick Smith – Alison Griffiths. Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Festival and Event Reviews
- Christopher Michael – Animating the Queer Future: A Review of “Arca and Jesse Kanda Live at the Roundhouse”
- Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre – Francine Desbiens récompensée du prix René Jodoin aux 18èmes Sommets du Cinéma d’Animation de Montréal
- Antoine Demeule and Alexandre Vermeil – Review of the 46th Concordia Film Festival
- Chloé Glangeaud – Compte rendu du colloque Télévision queer