Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this essay, I first introduce the background of queer independent filmmaking in Beijing—in theory and practice—and its uneasy, if not outright antagonistic, relationship with a state authority that has compelled filmmakers, festival curators, and critics to rethink and reconstruct queer cinema, as what Weihong Bao would call a mediating environment. By mediating environment, I mean that contemporary Chinese queer cinema is best understood not only as a collection of films, but also an interactive and intersubjective sociopolitical and critical discourse among the audience, political activists, filmmakers, critics, and scholars through film and video, critical writing, on-site and online discussion, film festival, or even education and protest that put into question the overall dispositif in which queerness is defined, constructed and reconfigured.
Repository Citation
Fan, Victor. "Free‐Indirect‐Discourse Reboot: Beijing Queer Independent Cinema as a Mediating Environment." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1–21. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss2/21