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Out Takes

Essays on Queer Theory and Film

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the “politics of representation” has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.The essays examine a wide array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound , and discuss such figures as Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. Divided into three sections, the first part reconsiders the construction of masculinity and male homoerotic desire-especially with respect to the role of women-in classic cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The second section offers a deconstructive consideration of lesbian film spectatorship and lesbian representation. Part three looks at the historical trajectory of independent queer cinema, including works by H.D., Kenneth Anger, and Derek Jarman.By exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, Out Takes will be useful to scholars in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and cinema studies.Contributors. Bonnie Burns, Steven Cohan, Alexander Doty, Lee Edelman, Michelle Elleray, Jim Ellis, Ellis Hanson, D. A. Miller, Eric Savoy, Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo, Jean Walton

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-05-03
Mått154 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSeries Q
Antal sidor376
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822323426

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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