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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses on queer, lesbian and gay documentary, arguing that documentary films and videos articulate an essential political and social urgency, acting as testaments to the importance of reclaiming history and reasserting the importance of these points of view.
Table of ContentsMarkers queer representation and Oregon's 1992 anti-gay ballot measure - measuring the politics of mainstreaming, Ronald Gregg; imaging the queer south - southern lesbian and gay documentary, Chris Cagle; Real/young/tv queer memories, Erika Suderburg; of hags and crones - reclaiming lesbian desire for the trouble zone of aging, Linda Dittmar; documentary that dare/not speak its name - Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures", Marc Siegel; walking on tippy toes - lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-Stonewall period 1969-1984, Thomas Waugh; marriage and mourning when autobiography meets ethnography and girl meets girl - the "dyke docs" of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich, Chris Holmlund; love, death and videotape - "Silverlake Life", Beverly Seckinger and Janet Jakobsen; autobiography, home movies and Derek Jarman's history lesson, Justin Wyatt; mirrors getting into lesbian shorts - white spectators and performative documentaries by makers of colour, Lynda Goldstein; "Hard to Believe"- reality anxieties in "Without You I'm nothing" , "Paris is Burning", and "dunyementaries", Cynthia Fuchs; transgender mirrors - queering sexual difference, Chris Straayer; irony and dissembling - queer tactics for experimental documentary, Kathleen McHugh; film and videography, Lynda McAfee.
