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Volume 9, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2055-5695
  • E-ISSN: 2055-5709

Abstract

Since the so-called ‘gay propaganda’ law was enacted in the Russian Federation in 2013, overt cinematic representations of LGBTQ+ lives and stories have become very rare. This article examines three rare examples of films with explicitly queer narratives: (), () and (). Taking a textual analysis approach, this article illuminates the intertwined provincial and queer discourses in these three films. It argues that by drawing on the ambivalent cultural mythology of the provinces, these three films to varying degrees defy the top-down, centre-driven homophobic official discourse of Russianness. The article therefore makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on Russophone queer cinema and global queer cinema more broadly.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Early Career Fellowship (Award ECF-2021-556)
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