Queercore

Queer Punk Media Subculture

Curran Nault

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Routledge
12 July 2019

Popular culture; Media studies; Gender studies: men; Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media

"Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine (""zine"") J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared ""civil war"" on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture of likeminded filmmakers, zinesters, musicans and performers situated in pointed opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the lifeless sexual politics and exclusionary tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. More than thirty years later, queercore and its troublemaking productions remain under the radar, but still culturally and politically resonant.

This book brings renewed attention to queercore, exploring the homology between queer theory/practice and punk theory/practice at the heart of queercore mediamaking. Through analysis of key queercore texts, this book also elucidates the tropes central to queercore’s subcultural distinction: unashamed sexual representation, confrontational politics and ""shocking"" embodiments, including those related to size, ability and gender variance. An exploration of a specific transmedia subculture grounded in archival research, ethnographic interviews, theoretical argumentation and close analysis, ultimately, Queercore proffers a provocative, and tangible, new answer to the long-debated question, ""What does it mean to be queer?"""

By: Curran Nault
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780367370558
ISBN 10: 0367370557
Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 12 July 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The Queer and the Punk 1. Queer Punk Productions Before Queercore 2. Queercore Sex 3. Queercore Confrontation 4. Queercore Bodies Conclusion: A Queer Elegy for the Future

Curran Nault is a joint lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Reviews for Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture

Queercore is both a solid piece of scholarship and a highly engaging and readable book. It brings queer theory and queer studies back to the cutting edge by reminding us of the inherently political and radical aspects of queerness. As a queer methodology it is a very useful case study in 'how to do queer' that demonstrates that there is still a good deal of intellectual and radical life in queerness. --Gary Needham, University of Liverpool, UK