Out Takes

by Hanson, Ellis; Barale, Michele Aina; Goldberg, Jonathan; Moon, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780822323426
• ISBN10: 0822323427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the "politics of representation" has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to re-examine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship. The essays examine a wide array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound. They discuss such figures as Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. Divided into three sections, the first part reconsiders the construction of masculinity and male homo-erotic desire-especially with respect to the role of women-in classic cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The second section offers a deconstructive consideration of lesbian film spectatorship and lesbian representation. Part three looks at the historical trajectory of independent queer cinema, including works by H.D., Kenneth Anger, and Derek Jarman. By exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, Out Takes will be useful to scholars in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and cinema studies. Contributors. Bonnie Burns, Steven Cohan, Alexander Doty, Lee Edelman, Michelle Elleray, Jim Ellis, Ellis Hanson, D. A. Miller, Eric Savoy, Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo, Jean Walton

Table of Contents

Introduction: Out Takes	1	(22)
Ellis Hanson
CRUISE CONTROL
Rethinking Masculinity in Classic Cinema
Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby	23	(23)
Steven Cohan
The Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and The Red Shoes	46	(26)
Alexander Doty
Rear Window's Glasshole	72	(25)
Lee Edelman
Visual Pleasure in 1959	97	(32)
D.A. Miller
LESBIAN LOOKS
Desire, Identification, Fantasy
Cassandra's Eyes	129	(22)
Bonnie Burns
``That Ain't All She Ain't'': Doris Day and Queer Performativity	151	(32)
Eric Savoy
Lesbians Who Bite	183	(40)
Ellis Hanson
Heavenly Creatures in Godzone	223	(20)
Michelle Elleray
QUEERING THE REEL
Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema
White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of Borderline	243	(28)
Jean Walton
Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History	271	(17)
Matthew Tinkcom
Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance	288	(28)
Jim Ellis
Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History	316	(31)
Amy Villarejo
Bibliography	347	(10)
Index	357	(6)
Contributors	363