Queer Looks

by Gever,Martha

• ISBN13: 9780415907422
• ISBN10: 041590742X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Queer Looksis a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiating the difficult terrain between street pragmatism and theoretical inquiry, finding voices rich inchutzpahand subtlety. From guerilla Super-8 in Manila to AIDS video activism in New York,Queer Lookszooms in on this very queer place in media culture, revealing a wealth of strategies, a plurality of aesthetics, and an artillary of resistances.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On a Queer Day You Can See Forever
That Moment of Emergence	p. 3
Working Round the L-Word	p. 12
On the Make: Activist Video Collectives	p. 21
Eso, me esta pasando	p. 38
"Filling the lack in everybody is quite hard work, really..." A roundtable discussion	p. 41
The Cost of Love	p. 61
The Politics of Abstraction	p. 70
George Kuchar: Half the Story	p. 76
An Unrequited Desire for the Sublime: Looking at Lesbian Representation Across the Works of Abigail Child, Cecilia Dougherty, and Su Friedrich	p. 86
Girlfriend in a Coma: Notes on the Films of Gregg Araki	p. 103
Queens of Language: Paris Is Burning	p. 108
"The Only Haircut that Makes Sense Anymore": Queer Subculture and Gay Resistance	p. 116
Bodies in Trouble	p. 134
The Third Body: Patterns in the Construction of the Subject in Gay Male Narrative Film	p. 141
Storming the Lull, or It's a Lesbian Heat Wave	p. 162
No Sex in the USSR	p. 177
Pictures of Sickness: Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes	p. 186
Ecce Homo: On Making Personal Gay Cinema	p. 204
The AIDS Crisis Is Riduculous	p. 209
Making the Most of Your Backyard: The Story of an Ideal Beauty	p. 225
Birth of a Notion: Towards Black Gay and Lesbian Imagery in Film and Video	p. 234
Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film	p. 238
Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others	p. 257
Madame X of the China Seas	p. 275
My Affair with Pasolini	p. 292
Desiring Conquest	p. 303
When Difference Is (More Than) Skin Deep	p. 318
India Postcard, or Why I Make Work in a Racist, Homophobic Society	p. 340
Porno?	p. 348
Shortcomings: Questions about Pornography as Pedagogy	p. 355
She Must be Seeing Things: An Interview with Sheila McLaughlin	p. 368
Dessert Hearts	p. 377
Security Blankets: Sex, Video and the Police	p. 383
Homosexuality as Dissent/Cinema as Subversion: Articulating Gay Consciousness in the Philippines	p. 395
Take Back the Light: A Lesbian Visibility Lampshade	p. 403
Contributors	p. 411
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