British queer cinema / edited by Robin Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffiths, Robin (Robin Mark)

Series:

British popular cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Gay people in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

British Queer Cinema draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema.

From the early years of 'Pre-Gay' film, through to the social upheaval of post-war 'permissiveness', Gay Liberation and the 'post-AIDS' queer generation, contributors examine the shifting and complex nature of queer identity, desire and spectatorship across a number of classical and contemporary British popular film genres and traditions.

Through case studies of key works such as The Killing of Sister George, Prick Up Your Ears and Beautiful Thing; a reappraisal of the films of Anthony Asquith, Terence Davies and Derek Jarman; to the 'queerness' of the heritage film, the homoerotic 'New Wave', or the star performances of Dirk Bogarde, Beryl Reid and Stephen Fry, this timely collection maps the relationship between contemporary queer sexuality and its socio-historical, national and critical contexts.

Contents:

Introduction: Queer Britannia - a century of sinema / Robin Griffiths 1

1 In search of nebulous nancies: Looking for queers in pre-gay British film / Andy Medhurst 21

2 Behind the masks: Anthony Asquith and Brian Desmond Hurst / Stephen Bourne 35

3 An instrument with a flaming sword: Conservative queerness in A Canterbury Tale / Alexander Doty 47

4 Are there stars out tonight? / Keith Howes 61

5 Sad and angry: Queers in 1960s British cinema / Robin Griffiths 71

6 'A comic monster of revue': Beryl Reid, Sister George and the performance of dykery / Lizzie Thynne 91

7 'Come and have a bathe!': Landscaping the queer utopia / Michael Williams 105

8 Intermingling under controlled conditions: The queerness of Prick Up Your Ears / Kenneth Mackinnon 121

9 Terence Davies and the Unheimlich home movie / Jim Ellis 133

10 More jiggery than pokery: Derek Jarman's Edward II / Raymond Armstrong 145

11 Beyond the pale: The politics of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game / Andrew Moor 157

12 'It's my nature': AIDS narratives and the moral re-branding of queerness in the mid-1990s / Gregory Woods 171

13 Beautiful Thing: British queer cinema, positive unoriginality and the everyday / Ros Jennings 183

14 Taming Oscar Wilde: Queerness, heritage and stardom / Glyn Davis 195

15 An interview with Lisa Gornick: Reflections on a 'first draft' film about love and its labels / Ani Ritchie 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages [215]-239).

ISBN:

0415307783

0415307791

OCLC:

61704760

Publisher Number:

9780415307789

9780415307796