Australian Queer Screens

Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.Whitney Monaghan is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia. Stuart Richards is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of South Australia. Scott McKinnon is Assistant Director at the National Library of Australia and Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. Tinonee Pym is Research Associate at Adelaide University, South Australia.

• FiguresAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Renaissance in Australian Queer Screen (Studies)Part 1: Histories and Formations 2. The Politics of Film Representation3. Australian Queer Television4. Framing Politics: Filmgoing and ActivismPart 2: Australian Queer Film Production 5. Motivation and Impact among LGBTQ Screen Stakeholders 6. The Australian Queer Film FestivalPart 3: Reading the Australian Queer Text 7. Australian Queer Screen Criticism8. Gender-Diverse, Trans, and Emergent Identity Frameworks in New Screen Contexts9. Historical Reception Practices, Policing, and Community ChangePart 4: Audience, Identity, and Culture 10. Australian Queer Screen Audiences: Place, Time, and Memory11. Young Audiences, Mental Health, and Identity12. Queer Screens and Social Change13. Queer Australian Screen Futures and AffordancesReferencesFilmographyIndex

Australian Queer Screens challenges the notion that many hold that LGBTIQ+ representations were not visible throughout Australia’s rich screen history. This book is the long overdue compendium of the queer history of Australian screens. It charts these developments through their history and formations, production contexts, reading practices and audience and culture. It is a book where the authors declare ‘Queerness has always existed on Australian screens’ and then show the diverse ways this statement is true. Australian Queer Screens is essential reading for those who want to understand just how queer Australian screen media was, is and could be in the future.