The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema

Thomas Waugh

Published by Duke University Press 2000

The Fruit Machine

Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema

Thomas Waugh
With contributions by: John Greyson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380948

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About this book

A selection of writings on gay and lesbian cinema by one of the pioneers of queer film criticism.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Waugh is Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. In addition to his many published articles and reviews, he is the author of Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall.

John Greyson is a prizewinning filmmaker whose work includes the features Urinal, Zero Patience, Lilies, and Uncut, as well as numerous short videos.

Reviews

“This is an enthralling book about a topic at once life-affectingly important and extraordinarily complex: how gay people—or anyone else—are seen and see themselves and how the movies help shape that. Tom Waugh shows us in exemplary fashion that you can combine personal passion and political engagement with the highest standards of intellectual discipline, while taking us on a delicious trip through the vagaries of queer film images.”—Richard Dyer, University of Warwick

“Tom Waugh was thinking queerly about the movies for decades before the New Queer Cinema was a market niche, but without his careful thinking and charming interventions, it’s hard to imagine the present cultural moment. Back when being gay was anything but fashionable, Waugh taught and fought, proselytized and organized, so that queer films and queer audiences would be taken seriously.”—B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword John Greyson Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing,Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976-77) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
A Fag-Spotter's Guide to Eisenstein (1977) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1978) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Medical Thrills: Born a Man . . . Let Me Die aWoman (1978-79) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Murnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
An Unromantic Fiction: I'm Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi's Ernesto and von Praunheim's Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979-80) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers,WeWere One Man (1980) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans (1980) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Caligula (1981) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Hollywood's Change of Heart? (Porky's and The RoadWarrior) (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutmann's Nagua (1983) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Hauling an Old Corpse Out ofHitchcock's Trunk: Rope (1983) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Sex beyond Neon: ThirdWorld Gay Films? (1985) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer: Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes (1986) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986±87) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Whipping Up a Cinema (1989) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946-1990 (1991) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
We're Talking, Vulva, or,My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-1984 (1995-97) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Archeology and Censorship (1997) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Selected Additional Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 59 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: April 4, 2000
ISBN: 9780822380948