British Queer Cinema

Robin Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of New Queer Cinema: Beyond the Celluloid Closet (2005), and editor of Queer Cinema in Europe (2005).

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Queer Britannia – A Century of Sinema ROBIN GRIFFITHS 1 In Search of Nebulous Nancies: Looking for British Cinema’s Pre-Gay Queers ANDY MEDHURST 2 Behind the Masks: Anthony Asquith and Brian Desmond Hurst STEPHEN BOURNE 3 An Instrument with a Flaming Sword: Conservative Queerness in A Canterbury Tale ALEXANDER DOTY 4 Are There Stars Out Tonight? KEITH HOWES 5 Sad and Angry: Queers in Sixties British Cinema ROBIN GRIFFITHS 6 ‘A Comic Monster of Revue’: Beryl Reid, Sister George and the Performance of Dykery LIZZIE THYNNE 7 ‘Come and Have a Bathe!’ : Landscaping the Queer Utopia MICHAEL WILLIAMS 8 Intermingling under Controlled Conditions: The Queerness of Prick Up Your Ears KENNETH MACKINNON 9 Terence Davies and the Unheimlich Home Movie JIM ELLIS 10 ‘It’s My Nature’ : AIDS Narratives and the Moral Re-branding of Queerness in the mid-1990s GREGORY WOODS 11 Beyond the Pale: The Politics of The Crying Game ANDREW MOOR 12 More Jiggery Than Pokery: Derek Jarman’s Edward II RAYMOND ARMSTRONG 13 Taming Oscar Wilde: Queerness, Heritage and Stardom GLYN DAVIS 14 Interview with Lisa Gornick: Reflections on a ‘First Draft’ Film about Love and its Labels ANI RITCHIE 15 Beautiful Thing: British Queer Cinema, Positive Unoriginality and the Everyday ROS JENNINGS Selective Filmography Index

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