In this talk, John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge) explores the connections between the work of Sirk, Fassbinder and Haynes – all masters of melodrama, a cinematic mode that revels in baroque excess, transgression of social and sexual mores, and a singularly queer sensibility. Ultimately Rhodes explores whether Fassbinder’s and Haynes’ ‘cinephilic’ responses to Sirk’s films suggest a potentially queer way of loving film, and a broader relation between loving and knowing.

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