Queer Images

Harry M. Benshoff is associate professor of radio, television, and film at the University of North Texas and author of Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Sean Griffin is associate professor of film and media studies at Southern Methodist University and author of Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out. They are the co-authors of America on Film and the co-editors of Queer Cinema: The Film Reader.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is Queer Film History?Chapter 2 1 From Pansies to Predators: Queer Characters in Early American CinemaChapter 3 2 Discreet Charms: Queer Filmmakers in Classical HollywoodChapter 4 3 "Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark": Queer Audiences and Classical Hollywood CinemaChapter 5 4 Fear and Loathing in Postwar HollywoodChapter 6 5 Exploitation or Art? Queer Films beyond HollywoodChapter 7 6 Hollywood and the Sexual RevolutionChapter 8 7 Producing Pride: Queers Make MoviesChapter 9 8 Out of the Closet and into the Art HouseChapter 10 9 A Matter of Life and Death: AIDS, Activism, Film, and VideoChapter 11 10 Hollywood Is Burning: New Queer CinemaChapter 12 11 Queer Eye for the Straight Hollywood ExecutiveChapter 13 12 Queer Independent Film at the Turn of the MillenniumChapter 14 Select Bibliography

[An] excellent general history of queer sexualities in American film over the past 100 years. . . . The college professor authors maintain an accessible style and vocabulary even while tackling prickly points and turns of queer theory. Like [Vito] Russo's groundbreaking study, this new contribution to the field is essential.