Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film

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Ellis Hanson
Duke University Press, 1999 - Počet stran: 364
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 reexamine 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 , and 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 homoerotic 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

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Out Takes
1
CRUISE CONTROL
15
QUEERING THE REEL
17
The Queer Aesthete the Diva and The Red Shoes
46
Rear Windows Glasshole
72
Visual Pleasure in 1959
97
Cassandras Eyes
129
Doris Day and Queer Performativity
151
Heavenly Creatures in Godzone
223
White Neurotics Black Primitives and the Queer Matrix of Borderline
243
Scandalous Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History
271
Derek Jarmans Renaissance
288
Pulp as Lesbian History
316
Bibliography
347
Contributors 363
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Lesbians Who Bite
183

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O autorovi (1999)

Ellis Hanson is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

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