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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies. This work charts the emergence and maturation of author's sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking.
Trade Review“This is an enthralling book about a topic at once life-affectingly important and extraordinarily complex: how gay people—or anyone else—are seen and see themselves and how the movies help shape that. Tom Waugh shows us in exemplary fashion that you can combine personal passion and political engagement with the highest standards of intellectual discipline, while taking us on a delicious trip through the vagaries of queer film images.”—Richard Dyer, University of Warwick
“Tom Waugh was thinking queerly about the movies for decades before the New Queer Cinema was a market niche, but without his careful thinking and charming interventions, it’s hard to imagine the present cultural moment. Back when being gay was anything but fashionable, Waugh taught and fought, proselytized and organized, so that queer films and queer audiences would be taken seriously.”—B. Ruby Rich, author of
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film MovementTable of ContentsForeword / John Greyson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Films by Gays for Gays:
A Very Natural Thing,
Word Is Out, and
The Naked Civil Servant (1977)
Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976–77)
A Fag-Spotter’s Guide to Eisenstein (1977)
Derek Jarman’s
Sebastiane (1978)
Medical Thrillers:
Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman (1978–79)
Murnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979)
An Unromantic Fiction:
I’m Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979)
The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi’s
Ernesto and von Praunheim’s
Army Of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)
Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979–80)
Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real:
Chant d’amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980)
Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980)
A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Rozier’s
Blue Jeans (1980)
Caligula (1980)
Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981)
Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981)
Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982)
Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit:
Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and
Querelle (1982)
Hollywood’s Change of Heart? (
Porky’s and
The Road Warrior) (1982)
Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutman’s
Nagua (1983)
Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock’s Trunk:
Rope (1983)
Sex Beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985)
Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986)
Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer:
Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and
Man of Ashes (1986)
The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986–87)
Laws of Desire:
Maurice, Law of Desire, and
Vera (1987)
Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988)
Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988)
Whipping Up a Cinema (1989)
Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992)
In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946–1990 (1991)
We’re Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999)
Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the
Post-Stonewall Period 1969–1984 (1995–97)
Archeology and Censorship (1997)
Bibliography: Selected Additional Works
Index
