The Fruit Machine

by Waugh, Thomas; Greyson, John

• ISBN13: 9780822324683
• ISBN10: 0822324687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
John Greyson
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	I
Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977)	14	(20)
Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977)	34	(9)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976--77)	43	(16)
A Fag-Spotter's Guide to Eisenstein (1977)	59	(10)
Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1978)	69	(3)
Medical Thrills: Born a Man...Let Me Die a Woman (1978--79)	72	(2)
Murnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979)	74	(12)
An Unromantic Fiction: I'm Not from Here	86	(2)
Harvey Marks
The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi's Ernesto and von Praunheim's Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)	88	(5)
Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979--80)	93	(8)
Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980)	101	(8)
Nighthawks	109	(5)
Ron Peck
Paul Hallam
A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans (1980)	114	(3)
Caligula (1981)	117	(5)
Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981)	122	(4)
Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981)	126	(5)
Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982)	131	(4)
Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982)	135	(6)
Hollywood's Change of Heart? (Porky's and The Road Warrior) (1982)	141	(4)
Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutmann's Nagua (1983)	145	(3)
Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock's Trunk: Rope (1983)	148	(3)
Sex beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985)	151	(5)
Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986)	156	(5)
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)	161	(11)
The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986--87)	172	(15)
Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987)	187	(8)
Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988)	195	(13)
Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988)	208	(6)
Whipping Up a Cinema (1989)	214	(4)
Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992)	218	(17)
In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946--1990 (1991)	235	(2)
We're Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999)	237	(9)
Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969--1984 (1995--97)	246	(26)
Archeology and Censorship (1997)	272	(25)
Selected Additional Works	297	(2)
Index	299