'A panorama of gay life': The making of 'Nighthawks'

  • Glyn Davis (Invited speaker)

Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

I was invited to give a talk at Goldsmiths for the Queer History MA seminar series. My talk - arising from research connected to the 'Cruising the 1970s' project - was an exploration of 'Nighthawks' (1978), made by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam. In addition to discussing the evolution and development of the film, I introduced queer methods of thinking about the film's significance, drawing in particular on writings by Sarah Schulman, Melissa Adler, and Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed.
Period29 Nov 2018
Held atGoldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Nighthawks (film)
  • queer film
  • queer cinema
  • LGBTQ history
  • British queer history
  • film studies

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