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Book SynopsisBrings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a 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.
Trade Review"Dedicated to sniffing out the pansy quotient in ostensibly straight texts, queer theory sounds like fun ... It's certainly amusing to regard Hope and Crosby as illicit paramours in their 40s 'Road to ...' comedies, but I wish the creative misreader Steven Cohan didn't feel the need to unpack every last double entendre. The same goes for Alexander Doty, who ponders the latent homoerotics of Powell and Pressburger. " (and so it goes on)--Sight and Sound, February 2000"The whole is well designed, readable and illustrated with frame enlargements. The contributions retain the best aspects of queer theory's appealing revision of the past, revealing examination of the present and weather eye on the future. The volume is also welcome in that it is not purely located in the labyrinthine psychoanalytic underworld where much similar work tends to be found, and many of the contributions retain the sense of humour that is happily part of much of queer theory's style."--Mark Brownrigg, University of Stirling, SCOPE
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
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