Queering the quotidian: Queer phenomenological approaches to ‘lowbrow’ entertainment

Issue 20, Winter 2022

Letter from the editors


(Guilty) Viewing Pleasures and Reality TV: Queer Viewers Decoding the Greek Version of The Bachelor


Besideness: distance and proximity as queer disorientations to inhabit projective moving image installations


Emotional Registers of Queer Representation: Gothic Expression in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Vivienne Medrano’s “Addict”


Queer Temporalities: Boredom and Bodily Intelligence in Early Italian Slapstick Comedies


I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK: The Boundary Blurring Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson


“I’m gonna study everything!” Bisexual Orientations in Dana Terrace’s The Owl House


“Nomi Malone is what Las Vegas is all about!”: Phallic women in Showgirls


The Spanish lesbian collective LSD: A closer look to their video-essay Retroalimentación (1998)


Butch Orientations: Locating Queerness in Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead


The Queer Monster: Putting Séance and Bit in Conversation


Filming History from Below: Microhistorical Documentaries

Reviewed by Stuart A. Neave


A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation

Reviewed by Clement Obropta


A Functionalist Cinema: “Twilight of Film” by Raoul Hausmann


For Posterity’s Sake: Emil Jannings’ Autobiographical (Self-)Denazification


‘Text-Praxis’ and Modes of Production: Harun Farocki’s Collected Writing Between 1964 and 2000