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Out takes : essays on queer theory and film / edited by Ellis Hanson.

Hanson, Ellis, 1965- (Added Author).

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 reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0822323095
ISBN: 9780822323099
ISBN: 0822323427
ISBN: 9780822323426
Physical Description: vi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-355) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Out Takes / Ellis Hanson -- Cruise Control: Rethinking Masculinity in Classic Cinema -- Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby / Steven Cohan -- Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and The Red Shoes / Alexander Doty -- Rear Window's Glasshole / Lee Edelman -- Visual Pleasure in 1959 / D. A. Miller -- Lesbian Looks: Desire, Identification, Fantasy -- Cassandra's Eyes / Bonnie Burns -- "That Ain't All She Ain't": Doris Day and Queer Performativity / Eric Savoy -- Lesbians Who Bite / Ellis Hanson -- Heavenly Creatures in Godzone / Michelle Elleray -- Queering the Reel: Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema -- White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of Borderline / Jean Walton -- Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History / Matthew Tinkcom -- Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance / Jim Ellis -- Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History / Amy Villarejo.