Beyond Shame in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016)

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage9en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage22en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume13en_US
dc.contributor.authorWalter, Jessica
dc.contributor.editorClausberg, Philipp
dc.contributor.editorkentwell, forrest
dc.contributor.editorLicznerski, Alexander
dc.contributor.editorLuebeck, Simon
dc.contributor.editorReintjes, Janis
dc.contributor.editorSchmieder, Katja
dc.contributor.editorSchumacher, Marie
dc.contributor.editorSpieler, Sophie
dc.contributor.editorTrautmann, Denise
dc.contributor.editorValle, Josef
dc.contributor.editorWeber, Lena
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-11T13:34:35Z
dc.date.available2022-11-11T13:34:35Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractShame is frequently racialized, gendered, and sexualized. The 2016 film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is a cultural touchstone in these terms. Through its success at the 89th Academy Awards, it brought to mainstream audiences a complex depiction of black, queer masculinities that move beyond shame. Moonlight follows a black man through three episodes in his life as he seeks to find agency in hypermasculine spaces wherein his potential queerness and aversion to dominance and aggression leads to isolation and shame. Through the lens of queer temporalities, I show how conventional queer narratives are subverted in Moonlight through opportunities of intimacy. I offer an analysis of the film’s depiction of queerness as an unfixed category and show how the aesthetics underscore the idea of indeterminacy.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.13-03
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2670
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:791en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldmediastudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldfilmstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldgenderstudiesen_US
dc.titleBeyond Shame in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016)en_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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