On Brokeback Mountain Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film

by Patterson, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780739121658
• ISBN10: 0739121650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-17
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The two versions of Brokeback Mountain are significant for taking readers and audiences inside the perspectives of men who love men, showing what physical and emotional passion and hostility toward that passion may be like for them. The story and the film help in understanding the many men who love men and who don't fit stereotypes of gay men or participate in the gay/queer worlds of urban/academic communities, especially men in rural areas and in working class contexts. On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film examines the presentation of friendship, sex, and love between men in Brokeback Mountain, as well as the depiction of homophobia and its effects on men who love men and their families. It relates the story and the film to the literary tradition of the homoerotic pastoral, the literary/movie tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Eric Patterson is associate professor of American studies and American literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Table of Contents

Introduction: About the Book	p. ix
Prologue: Reactions to Brokeback Mountain	p. xlv
A Companion Where None Had Been Expected: Friendship	p. 1
"Gun's Goin Off": Sex	p. 41
The Rushing Cold of the Mountain: Nature	p. 73
"We Do That in the Wrong Place We'll Be Dead": Hatred and Fear	p. 135
Separate and Difficult Lives: Love	p. 177
"What We Got Now Is Brokeback Mountain. Everything Built on That": Memory	p. 245
The Pair Like Two Skins, One inside the Other, Two in One: Myths of Love	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 295
About the Author	p. 301
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