2. What is “New Queer Cinema”?
■ Coined by B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound Magazine in 1992.
■ New Queer Cinema focuses on the LGBTQ experience
– Rejection of Heteronormativity
– A non-traditional lived experience.
– Gay & Lesbian Independent Filmmakers (Mainly in North America & England)
■ Antagonized heterosexuality and its hegemonic function.
■ New Queer Cinema has been making a universal appeal:
– Brokeback Mountain
– Milk
3. Why “Latin-
American”?
• Failure to recognize the
Intersectionality of queer cinema.
• It’s everywhere.
• It is not focused solely on parts of North
America and England.
• The extension of “Queer” cinema across
the globe.
4. Qualifications of New Queer Cinema…
■ Giving representation to
marginalized sub-groups.
■ No remorse shown
towards the character’s
faults and flaws “eschews
positive imagery” (Aaron,
Pg. 3)
■ Defies “cinematic
convention in terms of
form, content, and
genre.”
■ Defies death itself.
7. Marginalizatio
n and the
Human
experience• The movie represents a Queer Latino
male.
• Small village.
• Customs and religious traditions.
• Extreme Marginalization
• Expresses the idea of a “mayate” – a
married man who has sex with men.
8. Defying
Cinematic
Convention and
Death…
• Undertow defies cinematic convention in
terms of:
• Form
• The cinematography – grainy.
• Content
• Sexuality, Customs, Culture
• Genre
• “Queer Film”
• The movie defies the conventions of
death.
• Santiago doesn’t really die – eternal
unrest.
