Queer Temporality in Cinema: A Biopolitical Analysis of Time

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2024-9

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Konuk, Ece Nur

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Queer temporality is a concept that is used to explain alternative modes of existence that challenge normative linear timelines. These non-conforming experiences of time resist straight and cisgender narratives of progress and development. In this thesis, I will be analyzing two movies, namely I Saw the TV Glow and All of Us Strangers, in terms of failure and mourning, which are the two main aspects of the experiences that build queer temporality. I will show how the temporalities within these movies create unique examples of countering queer heterotopias that bear potentialities for a queer future. Finally, I will unpack why such a future is important to imagine in creating resistance toward a biopolitical strategy and how to achieve it through radical care of the self and, by extension, the community.

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queer temporality, heteronormativity, technologies of the self, political resistance

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111579

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis