Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film

Ellis Hanson

Published by Duke University Press 1999

Out Takes

Essays on Queer Theory and Film

Ellis Hanson

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379157

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Ellis Hanson is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

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Introduction: Out Takes Ellis Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CRUISE CONTROL Rethinking Masculinity in Classic Cinema
Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby Steven Cohan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and The Red Shoes Alexander Doty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Rear Window's Glasshole Lee Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Visual Pleasure in 1959 D. A. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
LESBIAN LOOKS Desire, Identification, Fantasy
Cassandra's Eyes Bonnie Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
"That Ain't All She Ain't": Doris Day and Queer Performativity Eric Savoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Lesbians Who Bite Ellis Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Heavenly Creatures in Godzone Michelle Elleray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
QUEERING THE REEL Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema
White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of Borderline Jean Walton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Scandalous l Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History Matthew Tinkcom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance Jim Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History Amy Villarejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 55 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: May 3, 1999
ISBN: 9780822379157