Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The X-Files.Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller  1Part I. Influences and Interlocutors1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White  312. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda  513. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon  724. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller  915. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller  111Part II. Intersections and Interventions6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff  1377. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery  1588. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis  1739. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai  200Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich  22111. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies  24312. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins  25613. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika  28114. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis  299Filmography  317References  321Contributors  341Index  345

“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” - Christine Vachon “Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” - Mary Ann Doane, author of (Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema) “Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” - Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Los Angeles Review of Books) “The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” - Edward Jackson (US Studies Online) "An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - J. I. Deutsch (Choice)

Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The X-Files.Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller  1Part I. Influences and Interlocutors1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White  312. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda  513. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon  724. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller  915. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller  111Part II. Intersections and Interventions6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff  1377. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery  1588. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis  1739. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai  200Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich  22111. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies  24312. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins  25613. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika  28114. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis  299Filmography  317References  321Contributors  341Index  345

“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” - Christine Vachon “Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” - Mary Ann Doane, author of (Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema) “Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” - Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Los Angeles Review of Books) “The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” - Edward Jackson (US Studies Online) "An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - J. I. Deutsch (Choice)

Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The X-Files.Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller  1Part I. Influences and Interlocutors1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White  312. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda  513. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon  724. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller  915. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller  111Part II. Intersections and Interventions6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff  1377. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery  1588. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis  1739. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai  200Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich  22111. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies  24312. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins  25613. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika  28114. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis  299Filmography  317References  321Contributors  341Index  345

“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” - Christine Vachon “Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” - Mary Ann Doane, author of (Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema) “Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” - Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Los Angeles Review of Books) “The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” - Edward Jackson (US Studies Online) "An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - J. I. Deutsch (Choice)