New queer cinema : a critical reader / edited by Michele Aaron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aaron, Michele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Gay people in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, "New Queer Cinema" has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish, and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema and to the infiltration of "queer" images and themes into the mainstream. Why did this shift take place? Was it political gains, cultural momentum, or market forces that energized the evolution and transformation of this cinematic genre? -- New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader provides a definitive and highly readable guide to the development of this important and controversial film movement. The volume is divided into four sections: defining "new queer cinema," assessing its filmmakers, examining geographic and national differences, and theorizing spectatorship. Chapters address the work of pivotal directors (such as Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki) and salient films (including Paris is Burning and Boys Don't Cry ), as well as unconventional and non-Anglo-American work (experimental filmmaking and third world cinema). With a critical eye to its uneasy relationship to the mainstream, New Queer Cinema explores the aesthetic, sociocultural, political, and, necessarily, commercial investments of the movement. It is the first full-length study of recent developments in queer cinema that combines indispensable discussions of central issues with exciting new work by key writers.

Contents:

Part I New Queer Cinema in Context

1 New Queer Cinema: An Introduction / Michele Aaron 3

2 New Queer Cinema / B. Ruby Rich 15

3 AIDS and New Queer Cinema / Monica B. Pearl 23

Part II New Queer Filmmaking

4 The Characteristics of New Queer Filmmaking: Case Study - Todd Haynes / Michael DeAngelis 41

5 Camp and Queer and the New Queer Director: Case Study - Gregg Araki / Glyn Davis 53

6 Art Cinema and Murderous Lesbians / Anneke Smelik 68

7 New Queer Cinema and Experimental Video / Julianne Pidduck 80

Part III Locating New Queer Cinema

8 New Queer Cinema and Lesbian Films / Anat Pick 103

9 New Queer Cinema: Spectacle, Race, Utopia / Daniel T. Contreras 119

10 New Black Queer Cinema / Louise Wallenberg 128

11 Nationality and New Queer Cinema: Australian Film / Ros Jennings, Loykie Lomine 144

12 New Queer Cinema and Third Cinema / Helen Hok-Sze Leung 155

Part IV Watching New Queer Cinema

13 Reception of a Queer Mainstream Film / Harry M. Benshoff 172

14 The New Queer Spectator / Michele Aaron 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813534860

OCLC:

54374568