New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader

Michele Aaron

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2004

New Queer Cinema

A Critical Reader

Michele Aaron

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474463768

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About this book

Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, 'New Queer Cinema' has turned the attention of film theorists, students and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema, and to the proliferation of 'queer' images and themes within the mainstream. But what constituted New Queer Cinema then and now? And was it political gains, cultural momentum or market forces that determined its evolution?

New Queer Cinema is divided into sections on the definition, the filmmakers, the geography, and the spectator of New Queer Cinema. Chapters address the pivotal directors (e.g. Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki) and the salient films (e.g. Paris is Burning and Boys Don't Cry) but also non-mainstream and non-Anglo-American work (e.g. experimental film and third cinema). With a critical eye to its uneasy relationship to the mainstream, the volume explores the aesthetic, socio-cultural, political and, necessarily, commercial investments of New Queer Cinema. This book, the first full-length study of the subject, offers the definitive guide to New Queer Cinema combining indispensable discussions of its central issues with exciting new work by keywriters.

Features

Provides a definitive introduction to New Queer Cinema (NQC)
Clear structure with each section addressing a key topic in the study of NQC
Themes covered include genre, gender and race, politics, media, and the relationship between NQC and the mainstream.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Part I New Queer cinema in context
1. New queer cinema: an introduction Michele Aaron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. New queer cinema B. Ruby Rich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Aids and new queer cinema Monica B. Pearl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Part II New queer filmmaking
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4. The characteristics of new queer filmmaking: case study-Todd Haynes Michael DeAngelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5. Camp and queer and the new queer director: case study-Gregg Araki Glen Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Art cinema and murderous lesbians Anneke Smelik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
7. New queer cinema and experimental video Julianne Pidduck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part III Locating new queer cinema
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8. New queer cinema and lesbian films Anat Pick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9. New queer cinema: Spectacle, race, utopia Daniel T. Contreras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
10. New black queer cinema Louise Wallenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
11. Nationality and new queer cinema: Australian film Ros Jennings and Loykie Lominé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
12. New Queer cinema and third cinema Helen Hok-Sze Leung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Part IV Watching new queer cinema
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13. Reception of a queer mainstream film Harry M. Benshoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
14. The new queer spectator Michele Aaron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 3, 2004
ISBN: 9781474463768