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A collection of essays that demonstrates--and thus advances--a more sophisticated and analytically-based form of gay and lesbian film criticism through the incorporation of queer and feminist film theory.
Sommario
Introduction: Out Takes / Ellis Hanson
Cruise Control: Rethinking Masculinity in Classic Cinema
Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby / Steven Cohan
The Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and
The Red Shoes / Alexander Doty
Rear Window's Glasshole / Lee Edelman
Visual Pleasure in 1959 / D. A. Miller
Lesbian Looks: Desire, Identification, Fantasy
Cassandra's Eyes / Bonnie Burns
"That Ain't
All She Ain't": Doris Day and Queer Performativity / Eric Savoy
Lesbians Who Bite / Ellis Hanson
Heavenly Creatures in Godzone / Michelle Elleray
Queering the Reel: Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema
White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of
Borderline / Jean Walton
Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History / Matthew Tinkcom
Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance / Jim Ellis
Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History / Amy Villarejo
Bibliography
Index
Contributors
Info autore
Ellis Hanson, ed.
Riassunto
Brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. This book includes essays that examine an array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound.
