Between the Sheets, in the Streets

by Holmlund, Chris; Fuchs, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780816627752
• ISBN10: 0816627754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

The first book to focus on the connections between sexuality, activism, and documentary film. From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender films and videos. Between the Sheets, In the Streets considers these videos and films, testifying to the unavoidable connections between sexuality (the sheets) and activism (the streets) for all who identify as gay, lesbian, or queer in the 1990s. Among the topics discussed are representations of young queers on such shows as MTV's The Real World; pre-Stonewall films; portrayals of lesbians and aging; video activism in Oregon and the South; and the works of Derek Jarman, Su Friedrich, Cheryl Dunye, and Sadie Benning. A range of films and videos is examined, including Strangers in Good Company, Paris Is Burning, Juggling Gender, Silverlake Life, and Without You I'm Nothing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Chris Holmlund
Cynthia Fuchs
MARKERS
Queer Representation and Oregon's 1992 Anti-Gay Ballot Measure: Measuring the Politics of Mainstreaming	15	(15)
Ronald Gregg
Imaging the Queer South: Southern Lesbian and Gay Documentary	30	(16)
Chris Cagle
Real / Young / TV Queer	46	(25)
Erika Suderburg
MEMORIES
Of Hags and Crones: Reclaiming Lesbian Desire for the Trouble Zone of Aging	71	(20)
Linda Dittmar
Documentary That Dare/Not Speak Its Name: Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures	91	(16)
Marc Siegel
Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-84	107	(20)
Thomas Waugh
MARRIAGE AND MOURNING
When Autobiography Meets Ethnography and Girl Meets Girl: The ``Dyke Docs'' of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich	127	(17)
Chris Holmlund
Love, Death, and Videotape: Silverlake Life	144	(14)
Beverly Seckinger
Janet Jakobsen
Autobiography, Home Movies, and Derek Jarman's History Lesson	158	(17)
Justin Wyatt
MIRRORS
Getting into Lesbian Shorts: White Spectators and Performative Documentaries by Makers of Color	175	(15)
Lynda Goldstein
``Hard to Believe'': Reality Anxieties in Without You I'm Nothing, Paris Is Burning, and ``Dunyementaries''	190	(17)
Cynthia Fuchs
Transgender Mirrors: Queering Sexual Difference	207	(17)
Chris Straayer
Irony and Dissembling: Queer Tactics for Experimental Documentary	224	(17)
Kathleen McHugh
Film and Videography	241	(24)
Lynda McAfee
Contributors	265	(4)
Index	269