Queer Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

Queer Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

<P><EM>Queer Cinema, The Film Reader </EM>examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. </P> <P>Clearly 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:</P> <UL> <LI>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</LI> <LI>Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film, the musical, film <EM>noir</EM>, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces</LI> <LI>Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production, initially practised by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture</LI> <LI>Reception - considering three specific historical case-studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland to <EM>Star Trek</EM>.</LI></UL> <P>The Reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory and allows students and scholars of the subject to draw their own conclusions in their studies.</P>