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    The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema by Gregg, Ronald; Villarejo, Amy;

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 23 March 2022

    • ISBN 9780190877996
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages864 pages
    • Size 251x180x52 mm
    • Weight 1551 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 220 film stills and illustrations
    • 247

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    Short description:

    The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, looking at the ways in which the idea of "queer cinema" has expanded as a descriptor for a global arts practice.

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    Long description:

    The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars.

    The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Amy Villarejo and Ronald Gregg
    Defining Queer Cinema: Rethinking Methodology and the Archive
    1. After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. Fascism
    B. Ruby Rich
    2. Queer Pedagogy
    Tom Waugh
    3. More than Meets the Eye: On Facing without Fully Knowing the Queer Worlds around Us
    Nick Davis
    4. Lesbian Cinephilia and Digital Affordances
    Patricia White
    Reexamining the Queer Canon in Silent and Classical Hollywood Film
    5. Queer Laughter in the Archives of Silent Film Comedy
    Maggie Hennefeld
    6. Arias for an Untold Want: The Queer Desire of the Diva Film
    Dolores McElroy
    7. "There's a Rainbow on the River": The Affordances of Boy Soprano Bobby Breen In 1930s Hollywood
    Allison McCracken
    8. A Duet for Sailors and Pansies: Queer Archival Work and Male Same-Sex Dancing in Follow the Fleet (1936) and other Depression-Era Films
    David Lugowski
    9. This Can't Be Legal? Queer Masculinities in the 1940s Hollywood Musical
    Steven Cohan
    European Art Cinema and American Experimental Film Before Stonewall: Remapping the Queer Canon
    10. Looking Through the Rear-View Mirror: Queer Inter-Zones in French Cinema 1895-1945
    James Williams
    11. Trances, Myth, Bachelor Machines, and Abstractions: Queer Experimental Film in the Cold War Era (1943-1962)
    Juan Antonio Suárez
    12. On Marginality: La Dolce Vita's Homosexuals
    Richard Dyer
    13. Teorema's Death Drive
    Damon Young
    Methodology and Queer Archives between Stonewall and New Queer Cinema
    14. Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Feminist Iconography and Queer Aesthetics
    Sarah Keller
    15. Greener Pastures: Filming Sex and Place at Druid Heights
    Greg Youmans
    16. For Shame!: On the History of Programming Queer "Bad Objects"
    Marc Francis
    17. 'A Panorama of Gay Life': Nighthawks and British Queer Cinema in the 1970s
    Glyn Davis
    New Queer Cinema and Media: Revolutionizing the Archive
    18. Invasion of the Child Snatchers: Pedophilic Seduction in New Queer Cinema
    Ara Osterweil
    19. Mirror Scene: Transgender Aesthetics in The Matrix and Boys Don't Cry
    Cael M. Keegan
    20. Representing Ourselves into Existence: The Cultural, Political, and Aesthetic Work of Transgender Film Festivals in 1990s
    Laura Horak
    21. Making a Scene: Queercore Cinema
    Curran Nault
    Creating, Curating, Archiving Post-Stonewall Queer Cinema: First Person Accounts
    22. Lavender Images & Poetic Landscapes: My Thirty Years in the Queer Film Ecosystem
    Jenni Olson
    23. Andy and Me (It's Not Real and It's Not Fiction)
    Tom Kalin
    24. VHS Archives, Committed Media Praxis, and "Queer Cinema"
    Alexandra Juhasz
    Global Queer Cinema
    25. Documentary Disclosures: The Emergence of Queer Independent Filmmaking in India
    Shohini Ghosh
    26. Syndromes and a Century: Contemporary Queer Thai Cinema
    Arnika Fuhrmann
    27. Queerly, Hopelessly, Precariously: Reimagining a Queer Politics of Globalization Through Three Taiwan Films
    Hwa-Jen Tsai
    28. Tracing Lesbian Cinema in Latin America
    Vinodh Venkatesh
    New Queer Voices, Forms, and Aesthetics
    29. Queer Theory and Nontheatrical Films: Perversion in the Public Domain
    Lauren Pilcher
    30. Brother to Brother and the 'Place' of Film in Black Queer History
    Kara Keeling
    31. Excessive Attachments: 21st Century Queer and Trans Video Art in the United States
    William J. Simmons

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