Queer Cinema, the Film Reader

by Benshoff; Harry

• ISBN13: 9780415319874
• ISBN10: 0415319870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Queer Cinema, the Film Readerexamines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss * Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema * Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces *Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production, initially practiced by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture *Reception - considering three specific historical case studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland toStar Trek. The reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
General introduction	1	(16)
PART ONE: AUTEURS	17	(44)
Introduction	17	(44)
1 Alexander Doty,
Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship	19	(16)
2 Thomas Waugh,
Physique Cinema, 1945-1969: Hard to Imagine	35	(8)
3 Andrea Weiss,
Transgressive Cinema: Lesbian Independent Film	43	(10)
4 B. Ruby Rich,
The New Queer Cinema	53	(8)
PART TWO: FORMS	61	(58)
Introduction	61	(58)
5 Harry Benshoff,
The Monster and the Homosexual	63	(12)
6 Brett Farmer,
Queer Negotiations of the Hollywood Musical	75	(14)
7 Richard Dyer,
Queer Noir	89	(16)
8 Sean Griffin,
Pronoun Trouble: The "Queerness" of Animation	105	(14)
PART THREE: CAMP	119	(32)
Introduction	119	(18)
9 Jack Babuscio,
Camp and the Gay Sensibility	121	(16)
10 Moe Meyer,
Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp	137	(14)
PART FOUR: RECEPTION	151	(74)
Introduction	151	(2)
11 Richard Dyer,
Judy Garland and Gay Men	153	(14)
12 Janet Staiger,
Finding Community in the Early 1960's: Underground Cinema and Sexual Politics	167	(22)
13 Henry Jenkins,
Out of the Closet and into the Universe": Queers and Star Trek	189	(20)
14 Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman,
Reviewing Queer Viewing	209	(16)
Select Bibliography	225	(6)
Index	231