Dr Andrew Moor to speak on New Gay Sincerity at Northampton University

Dr Andy Moor is Reader in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Andy will speak on '‘New Gay Sincerity and Anti-Metropolitan Gay Male Identities: Andrew Haigh's Weekend and Francis Lee's God’s Own Country’.

The conference will take place at Northampton University on February 16th - 17th 2019. The two-day conference aims to investigate both independent and mainstream contemporary Western gay male cinema, and its many facets and iterations. 

Dr Andy Moor is Reader in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He chiefly researches all aspects of LGBTQ cinema history (and LGBTQ Studies more widely), and British cinema history. 

Andy's chief area of interest was originally the work of Powell and Pressburger. Emerging from this study, Andy has an interest in British, transnational and cross-cultural film, with a particular emphasis on the work of exiles. While his interest in British Cinema is still alive and well, Andy's more recent research is into gay (and queer) cinema since Stonewall. He is the author of various chapters and articles looking at gay/queer culture, and he is interested in cross-currents between expressions of exile and of queerness. Andy has an ongoing interest in modes of queer viewing / reception studies, and am currently writing a monograph on the relationship between genre and sexuality in gay inflected cinema since Stonewall.

Andy is currently writing an article on what I call 'New Gay Sincerity' in the films of Andrew Haigh, Ira Sachs and Travis Mathews.