Death-style: An essay film investigation of 1980s images of gay male depravity through the lens of 'queer negativity'

随着LGBTQ+文化被西方主流所同化，这项以实践为主导的研究考虑了20世纪80年代对堕落男性同性恋的表现是否仅在同性恋的医学法律病理化的框架内被看待，或者他们是否也可能传达“酷儿威胁”的概念到主流文化。这项研究将调查最近关于“酷儿消极”的理论思想是否可以在散文电影的电影语言中使用，以增强和推进对20世纪80年代“男同性恋堕落”案例研究的重新审视。“在世纪之交，摄影图像给了同性恋者可见度。在《描绘越轨行为》一书中，斯图尔特马歇尔将同性恋从罪恶演变为疾病描述为“越轨行为的医学化，这导致了新的社会身份的扩散.其中许多都被见证并记录在摄影证据中。虽然早期的LGBT研究倾向于断言同性恋生活的合法性，但最近酷儿理论中的“转向负面”与酷儿的历史有关。杰克·哈尔伯鲁曾写过“奇怪的黑暗，一种阅读的策略，也是一种存在于世界上的方式。李·埃德尔曼将同性恋与死亡驱动力联系起来，将同性恋定位为“生殖未来主义的家庭叙事”。利用电影的“诗意，运输，如果不是非理性的，那么是理性的”品质和散文电影通过并置图像和声音的论点构建，研究将探讨如何从过去的问题酷儿表征可能被用来定位当今的酷儿存在，以进步，激进的方式反对异规范性

As LGBTQ+ culture becomes assimilated into the mainstream in the West, this practice-led research considers whether 1980s representations of the depraved male homosexual are to be viewed solely within the framework of the medico-legal pathologisation of homosexuality or whether they might also communicate the notion of a 'queer threat' to mainstream culture. The research will investigate whether recent theoretical ideas about 'queer negativity' can be utilised within the cinematic language of the essay film to augment and progress the re-examination of 1980s case studies of 'gay male depravity.' At the turn of the century, the photographic image gave visibility to the homosexual. In 'Picturing Deviancy', Stuart Marshall describes homosexuality's evolution from sin to disease as part of 'the medicalisation of deviancy which was to result in a proliferation of new social identities... many of which were to be witnessed and catalogued in the evidence of photography.' Whilst early LGBT studies tended to assert the legitimacy of gay lives, the recent 'turn to the negative' in queer theory engages with the history of queer abjection. Jack Halberstam has written of 'queer darkness, a strategy of reading as well as a way of being in the world.' Lee Edelman links homosexuality to the death drive, positioning queerness in opposition to the 'familial narrativity of reproductive futurism'. Exploiting cinema's 'poetic, transportive and, if not irrational, then a-rational' qualities and the essay film's construction of argument through juxtaposed images and sound, the research will examine how problematic queer representations from the past might be used to position present day queer existence in terms of a progressive, radical opposition to heteronormativity