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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity

Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit
In: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 115–48
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Part of Queer Post-Cinema Containing:
Introduction
Autoimmunity and Sexual Difference in Todd Haynes’s Films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Safe
Affective-Political Work with Documents: Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana
Intense Play with Light and Sound: Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology
The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity: Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit
She Is Inseminating: Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)
Coda
Title
The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity
Subtitle
Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit
Author(s)
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32_4
Is Part Of
Queer Post-Cinema
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
6 May 2025
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
115
page end
148
Source
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 115–48

Publication scheduled for 6 May 2025

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Cite as: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity: Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit’, in Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 115-48 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32_4>