Out Takes

Ellis Hanson is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

• 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

"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