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The publication pipeline has been a little slower for me lately but excited to see this journal article come out into the world! Thanks to Nicole Seymour for patiently co-authoring this baby with me.
This link is free access for 3 months, so grab it while ya can! Abstract follows.This article outlines a theory of aromantic and asexual film aesthetics exemplified in a reading of the surrogacy comedy Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021). Contextualizing this analysis within the long genre history of the romantic comedy, the article argues that this film constitutes a challenge to the presiding atmosphere of compulsory sexuality in contemporary culture by focalizing a platonic intergenerational friendship, highlighting the quotidian charms and pleasures of that nonsexual and nonromantic relationship, and portraying it as both nurturing and finite. ...
#asexual #aromantic #amatonormativity #AroAceAesthetics #FilmStudies #RomCom #TogetherTogether