Spectacular Passions - Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships

"Spectacular Passions" makes a compelling case for deploying psychoanalytic theory to explain gay culture's complex relationship with popular film. But, fear not, author Brett Farmer mixes Freud with fandom to produce an engaging book that is filled with insights and surprises."--Alexander Doty, Lehigh University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: At First Sight

1. Something a Little Strange: Theorizing Gay Male Spectatorships

2. Fantasmatic Escapades: Gay Spectatorships and Queer Negotiations of the Hollywood Musical
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3. Camping Under the Stars: Gay Spectatorships, Camp, and the Excessive Female Star Image
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4. Mommie Dearest: Gay Spectatorshps and Formations of Maternal-Oriented Desire
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5. Papa, Can’t You See That I’m Flaming: Gay Spectatorships and Figures of Masculinity

Endnotes

Filmography
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Bibliography

About the author

Brett Farmer

Summary

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognisable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Building on the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasmatic, this title works to depathologise gay male subjectivity.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Farmer, Farmer, Brett Farmer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2000
• EAN: 9780822325598
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2559-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 231 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität / LGBTQ, Fernsehen, TV